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Dear fellow developers,
Debian Installer no longer produces daily builds for this platform:
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https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/
Debian Linux kernel packages are only building support for Raspberry
Pi Zero, Zero W and 1:
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https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/config/armel/defines.toml
while many other platforms have been dropped.
Upstream projects, ARM companies which I was able to check with, do
not care that much about maintaining old code for ARMv5t chipsets,
therefore supporting it is more and more costly resource wise (not
only in Debian).
Timely to the writing of this email, Arnd Bergmann posted the
following timeline to deprecate ARM (armel) architecture, you can read
at:
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https://lwn.net/ml/all/2831c5a6-cfbf-4fe0-b51c-0396e5b0aeb7@app.fastmail.com/
Should Debian drop armel from the upcoming Debian release?
Regards
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