On 08/17/2017 08:49 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote: > If none of the curent armel porters want to continue working on armel > for buster that is OK, but dropping armel from testing now would result > in additional work later for re-adding it.
Roger Shimizu and me are interested in keeping this port as well. That's why I am happy to help wherever I can. > With plenty of v6 Raspberry Pi Zero still being sold today there's > plenty of new v6 hardware available, and Debian should continue to > offer an own root filesystem for such hardware. Yep. That's my main point as well. Technology has come to a point where even rather old hardware is still very useful for small embedded applications. The appeal comes mainly from the very low costs as well as low power consumption. Also, I would argue that especially in third world countries, old ARM hardware is still widely used. > And for users with v5 hardware there are not many alternatives. > > This year I have been one of the people who continuously follow > FTBFS on the buildds for all release architectures and report bugs. > armel is not in a bad shape, basically at the level of armhf. I agree. With over 12200 binary packages being up-to-date, I don't see any particular problems. I recently fixed openjdk-9 on armel and will fix anything that people throw at me ;). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
