Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 12:43:19PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: >... > What is the opinion of the two porters that we currently have listed > for armel >... I am not in favour of removing armel in trixie. > Cheers cu Adrian

Re: Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 08:53:44PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Hi, > > > On 2024-08-01 07:55:15 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > > Should Debian drop armel from the upcoming Debian release? > > > > Was there a conclusion to the discussion on d-arm@l.d.o? What is the > > opinion of the two por

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 05:18:15PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: >... > There was also a suggestion to mark non-for-us or stop building large > packages that may not be that useful in the armel architecture, such > LibreOffice, possibly some desktops, etc.. since armel is mostly meant > for embedded an

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Plus 1 from me! Rick On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, at 1:05 AM, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > Hello Hector, > thanks for bringing this up! > > On 2024-08-21 05:18, Hector Oron wrote: >> There was a compelling reason to do at least one more armel release to >> have at least one official release with time64 suppor

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-22 Thread Martin
On 2024-08-22 10:05, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > Hello Hector, > thanks for bringing this up! ¡Gracias, Héctor! > On 2024-08-21 05:18, Hector Oron wrote: >> There was a compelling reason to do at least one more armel release to >> have at least one official release with time64 support. > > FWIW I thi

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-22 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Hector, thanks for bringing this up! On 2024-08-21 05:18, Hector Oron wrote: > There was a compelling reason to do at least one more armel release to > have at least one official release with time64 support. FWIW I think this makes a lot of sense: have one stable release with time64 support

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM Hector Oron wrote: > > [...] > There was also a suggestion to mark non-for-us or stop building large > packages that may not be that useful in the armel architecture, such > LibreOffice, possibly some desktops, etc.. since armel is mostly meant > for embedded and

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Sebastian, (Apologies for delay, I starting drafting the email, but I had to leave and never got back to it until now) > Was there a conclusion to the discussion on d-arm@l.d.o? There was a compelling reason to do at least one more armel release to have at least one official release with t

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 15-08-2024 20:35, Martin wrote: What would be the best way, esp. for people outside of Debian, to always know about such problems? And not only read about it, when it's already solved? Ideally bug affecting specific architectures should have the right usertags. I believe in this case t

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-15 Thread Martin
On 2024-08-13 20:53, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > fakeroot, a notable key part of the infrastructure required to build > packages, FTBFS on armel and armhf since March, due to t64 changes > on these architectures. > > I think this is indicative of the developer interest in armel and > armhf and the

Re: Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, > On 2024-08-01 07:55:15 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > Should Debian drop armel from the upcoming Debian release? > > Was there a conclusion to the discussion on d-arm@l.d.o? What is the > opinion of the two porters that we currently have listed for armel > (added to CC)? fakeroot, a notable

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-11 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Hi Héctor On 2024-08-01 07:55:15 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > [ {debian-kernel,debian-boot,debian-release}@d.o are in Bcc so they > can track follow up emails at debian-arm ML if interested. ] > > Dear fellow developers, > > Debian Installer no longer produces daily builds for this platform: > -

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, at 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 16:21 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> Most of issues with armel packages are about libatomic link >> time requirements, and about applications that hardcode armv7 >> or vfp instruction extensions. > > Code that h

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 16:21 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I believe the builds are all done on arm64 hardware, and the table > lists the same issue for available hardware on armel, armhf and arm64. > > There are a few instructions that armel binaries can use that > are missing on armv8 hardware (c

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 13:03 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: >> > It's certainly not easy to determine the actual usage statistics, but as >> > long as there >> > is a considerable user base, I think dropping support for hardware because

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Hector, On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 13:03 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > It's certainly not easy to determine the actual usage statistics, but as > > long as there > > is a considerable user base, I think dropping support for hardware because > > it's old > > doesn't sound right to me. > > The main

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-06 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Adrian, On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 09:39, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Should Debian drop armel from the upcoming Debian release? > > While I understand the reasoning behind it, also having read Arnd's mail, I > don't > understand why these decisions rarely consider the environment and

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-01 Thread Gandalf From The Conjurers
Héllo all.Totally agreed, dropping any Armel for long time reason and manufacturers support may apply to all arm64 also.I really think it is a non urgent need but a hacking revival hardware possibility been just stopped...I still got sheeva plugs being easily IOT based reworked, so, dropping them m

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-01 Thread Martin
On 2024-08-01 10:31, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Most of the current users are probably fine with armel > being moved from a release architecture to ports, but from > a user perspective I also think it would be nice to do > that after Trixie is out, so that there is at least one > official release with

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-01 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, at 07:55, Hector Oron wrote: > [ {debian-kernel,debian-boot,debian-release}@d.o are in Bcc so they > can track follow up emails at debian-arm ML if interested. ] > > Dear fellow developers, > > Debian Installer no longer produces daily builds for this platform: > - https://d-i.

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Hector, On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 07:55 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > 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). > > T