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  • Re: Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky)

    From Marc Haber@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 15:10:01
    On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 03:00:24PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
    On Tue Oct 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM CET, Marc Haber wrote:
    On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:59:11AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
    Planned obsolescence is bad, not good.

    Still, Debian has to rely on stable support in kernel and toolchain.
    Once kernel and toolchain stop supporting? an architecture there is
    nothing that Debian could do about that with its limited personpower and
    resources.

    The kernel and/or toolchain dropping support is a valid argument IMO. >Dropping support because 7/8/10/15 years have passed is not.
    Some 'random' other distro dropping support is (IMO) not a valid
    argument in itself. Maybe their reasons behind dropping it, is.

    The problem is that Bastian has a point here in wanting to announce that
    YEARS in advance, but toolchain/kernel usually having a much shorter
    horzion. So, when we want to guess what they're going to do we have to
    be really careful and err to the conservative side.

    Greetings
    Marc


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