Hello, I know that we decided to not support arm* for wheezy-lts during last Debconf but it turns out that Freexian has been contacted by a potential LTS sponsor selling arm* products:
Openblocks A7 (armel) http://openblocks.plathome.co.jp/products/obs_a/a7/spec.html Opneblocks AX3 (armhf) http://openblocks.plathome.co.jp/products/obs_a/ax3/ The decision has been taken on the fact that we knew of nobody that was really interested on running wheezy on those architectures (we expected armhf users to run jessie and armel users to be only hobbyists). But here we have a sponsor willing to sign on a contract saying us « our customers wish to use Debian 7 OS continuously so that we are planning to sponsor the LTS efforts for two years. » Are there teams/persons with objections to adding armel/armhf to the set of supported architectures for wheezy-lts ? I have put in copy: - ftpmasters, they have to agree to keep hosting armel/armhf on security.debian.org - ARM porters, mostly to ensure that buildd maintainers are OK with this - Debian System Administrators as this might have an impact on the lifetime of the arm systems running the wheezy auto-builders Obviously this does have an impact on the work of LTS team members too since we will have to monitor ARM* builds too and it might mean more work for the kernel maintenance too. Since we have a single sponsor interested in ARM support, maybe we can introduce it on a provisional/experimental basis so that we can drop it if the sponsorship does not materialize (or is not enough to cover for the supplementary work). It might also be an opportunity to make a call for other armel/armhf users to join as sponsors (if you know some that we should contact, please let us know). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
