Hi,
As part of the interim architecture qualification for buster, we request that DSA, the security team and the toolchain maintainers review and update their list of known concerns for buster release architectures. Summary of the current concerns and issues: * DSA have announced a blocking issue for armel and armhf (see below) * Concerns from DSA about ppc64el and s390x have been carried over from stretch. * Concerns from the GCC maintainers about armel, armhf, mips, mips64el and mipsel have been carried over from stretch. If the issues and concerns from you or your team are not up to date, then please follow up to this email (keeping debian-release@l.d.o and debian-ports@l.d.o in CC to ensure both parties are notified). Whilst porters remain ultimately responsible for ensuring the architectures are ready for release, we do expect that you / your team are willing to assist with clarifications of the concerns and to apply patches/changes in a timely manner to resolve the concerns. List of blocking issues by architecture ======================================= The following is a summary from the current architecture qualification table. armel/armhf: ------------ * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM support uncertain. (DSA) - Source: [DSA Sprint report] [DSA Sprint report]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/02/msg00004.html List of concerns for architectures ================================== The following is a summary from the current architecture qualification table. * Concern for ppc64el and s390x: we are dependent on sponsors for hardware. (Raised by DSA; carried over from stretch) * Concern for armel and armhf: only secondary upstream support in GCC (Raised by the GCC maintainer; carried over from stretch) * Concern for mips, mips64el, mipsel and ppc64el: no upstream support in GCC (Raised by the GCC maintainer; carried over from stretch) Architecture status =================== These are the architectures currently being built for buster: * Intel/AMD-based: amd64, i386 * ARM-based: arm64, armel, armhf * MIPS-based: mips, mipsel, mips64el * Other: ppc64el, s390x If the blocking issues cannot be resolved, affected architectures are at risk of removal from testing before buster is frozen. We are currently unaware of any new architectures likely to be ready in time for inclusion in buster. On behalf of the release team, Niels Thykier
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