On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:42:32PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 04:53:32PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
On pages like https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/plucky the riscv64 architecture
is marked as "unofficial".
Looks like this corresponds to the "official" attribute of the
underlying distro_arch_series API object in Launchpad, which presumably
the TB can adjust as required.
I think you're implying a request to changing the value of this
attribute to True?
If so, that sounds like something for the Release Team to decide, having
consulted the teams they consider relevant. I imagine they'll want to
ensure that there aren't any implied expectations that won't be met, or
any technical failures due to implied assumptions about the meaning of
that field.
Presumably we'd also make this change only in the development release,
rather than trying to change history in existing stable releases?
In the past we had people like Steve who would immediately know the
implications and we'd all trust to make the right call, but now we
don't, so we have to be more careful :-/
Release Team: could you make a recommendation here please, for the
Technical Board to consider?
(Speaking only for myself)
FWIW, I can't think of any technical implications of changing this field
nowadays. From a quick grep, the only thing I can see is that it might
cause the mirror prober to do a bit more work, but that shouldn't be a
problem.
I would recommend only changing it for the development release, just in
case there's some subtle piece of IS machinery lying around that might
be confused by a change in stable releases.
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