Good morning Debian LTS/Security Team(s),

It has come to my attention that 'arm64' support was recently removed
from the debian-security repo [1].  After reading your announcement
[2] from June 1st it is clear that this is not a bug, but a deliberate
action/decision made by your good selves.  Could I ask you to please
reconsider your position?  This action breaks many community
projects, seen most clearly on the Docker Hub builder [3] where the
majority of the yellow (unstable) builds are the ones based on
Jessie.  In these cases Docker Build's 'RUN' command will result in
failure after an error return from `apt update`.

If you still decide that supporting 'arm64' as LTS is not the way to
go, is there any way you could simply not update the repo, rather than
totally removing it?  This will ensure that the many community
projects based on Jessie will at least keep working, even if they are
no longer contain the latest and greatest security fixes.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Kind regards,
Lee

[1] 
http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease
[2] https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180601
[3] https://doi-janky.infosiftr.net/job/multiarch/job/arm64v8/

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Linaro Services Technical Lead
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