Dear FTP team, after the very successful launch of Debian Trixie, we're entering the first week of development of the upcoming Debian Forky release. One of the proposed features will be official support for Loongson's LoongArch architecture [1].
We have already received approval from the release team and DSA and we're now just waiting for the FTP team to import loong64 to the official archive. We have one beefy loong64 server that is already maintained by DSA [2] with a second machine that has already arrived at one of Debian's hosting locations, Dandan Zhang who has been CC'ed on this mail can comment on the second server. I will be acting as the primary maintainer of the loong64 port, but I am happy to accept any co-maintainers within Debian. Additional help is provided by Loongson engineers who have been very busy fixing Debian packages and upstream projects on loong64. Overall, the port is in an extremely good shape with nearly all relevant software being available such as Rust, Golang, LibreOffice, Firefox, OpenJDK and so on, so I don't expect any additional work to unbreak packages on loong64. Furthermore, the loong64 machines are quite fast, so that I don't expect the full archive rebuild to take very long. I have not been involved with importing a new port into the official archive yet, but I suppose it should be enough to import enough packages from Debian Ports to be able to install build-essential, then let the buildds do the rest. Then trigger binNMUs for the packages imported from Debian Ports. Please let me know if you have any more questions or concerns regarding this. Thanks a lot for your work! Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00002.html > [2] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=conova-node-loongson07 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
