Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

[Kurt Roeckx]

On October 27, 2025 10:38:57 PM GMT+01:00, Milan Kupcevic <mi...@debian.org> 
wrote:
>On 10/26/25 8:21 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> Hi
>
>Hi Bastian,
>
>> 
>> We never did a real discussion about architecture baselines before, but I 
>> think
>> we should do that.  We also don't have any guidelines what we as Debian want 
>> to
>> actually support.  But given that we are a general purpose distribution, we
>> have to find a balance.
>> 
>> As a general guidance I would like to aim for a ten to 15 years support range
>> at release time. 
>
>
>It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide 
>availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in production 
>environment.

We still have PCs running that were shipped 15 to 20 years ago that we and 
their IT department wish would be replaced with something more recent. It 
really only gets replaced when it stops working.

Kurt