On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:52:51AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > >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.
Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply. > I'm guessing that the list of LTS architectures for Debian 8 (Jessie) > was just copied over from Debian 7 (Wheezy), and nobody thought to > check it or update it. arm64 didn't exist at all in Jessie, so was > simply overlooked here. > > I'm hoping it shouldn't be too hard to add arm64 into the list. That sounds promising. > However, we *really* should push people to update their software usage > more frequently than this. Jessie was released more than 3 years ago, > and even with LTS support I wouldn't recommend sticking there for > arm64. Lots of fixes and updates won't flow back that far. Yes of course. We can work with many of the projects to move over, but for now I really wish that so many community projects didn't just stop working with little/no warning. Is there anything else I need to do in order to encourage/expedite LTS adoption for ARM64? -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
