Re: Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky)

Marc Haber <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:07:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.bsd
Message-ID <aQCHuzU7VCMamQRd__27935.6423577823$1761642497$gmane$org@torres.zugschlus.de>
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:59:11AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>Debian isn't Microsoft. Debian isn't Apple. Debian isn't Google.
>Please don't learn the wrong lessons from them. Planned obsolescence
>is bad, not good.

Still, Debian has to rely on stable support in kernel and toolchain.  
Once kernel and toolchain stop supporting¹ an architecture there is 
nothing that Debian could do about that with its limited personpower and 
resources.

Greetings
Marc

¹ there is more than one way to do that, either pull support officially, 
letting people know about that, or just let the respective code rot away 
slowly because noone tests any more