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

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 03:00:24PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
>On Tue Oct 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM CET, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:59:11AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>The kernel and/or toolchain dropping support is a valid argument IMO.
>Dropping support because 7/8/10/15 years have passed is not.
>Some 'random' other distro dropping support is (IMO) not a valid
>argument in itself. Maybe their reasons behind dropping it, is.

The problem is that Bastian has a point here in wanting to announce that 
YEARS in advance, but toolchain/kernel usually having a much shorter 
horzion. So, when we want to guess what they're going to do we have to 
be really careful and err to the conservative side.

Greetings
Marc