On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:20:52 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I have noticed that GHA jobs started to fail when creating ppc64el sysroot. > We are using Debian bullseye as the base for sysroots. Debian bullseye is LTS > release. Perhaps counter-intuitively, LTS platform support shrinks over the > LTS lifetime. Debian wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using -- says: > > "Important: The current LTS version is Debian 11 ("bullseye") and will be > supported until August 31st, 2026. Supported architectures in Debian 11 LTS > are limited to amd64, i386, arm64 and armhf. Users of other architectures are > especially encouraged to upgrade to Debian 12 (''bookworm''). " > > We should consider switching to Debian bookworm for GHA cross-compiling > sysroots. Again, Debian wiki: > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBookworm#Architectures -- says all > architectures we need are supported. But actually, RISC-V is still only > supported with sid. So, we need to be switching only current bullseye to > bookworm, leaving sid as sid. This should change as Debian trixie releases in > a few weeks, but we cannot wait for this long. Debian trixie update would be > handled in [JDK-8363966](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8363966). > > Additional testing: > - [x] GHA cross-compilation jobs Makes sense in order to keep all platforms active. ------------- Marked as reviewed by clanger (Reviewer). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26447#pullrequestreview-3050692591
