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From: fw@deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:29:29 +0200
Subject: [cip-dev] ARM64 and Debian LTS
In-Reply-To: <1524062830.2587.7.camel@codethink.co.uk> (Ben Hutchings's
	message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:47:10 +0100")
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* Ben Hutchings:

> The list of architectures for jessie LTS is not decided and I haven't
> seen any discussion of it yet.  The starting point for discussion would
> be the list of architectures included in Debian 7 LTS, and that didn't
> include arm64 because it wasn't in Debian 7 to start with.
>
> I think that a proposal to include arm64 in Debian 8 LTS would probably
> be accepted.  There should be no practical issues with maintaining the
> infrastructure for it as arm64 hardware is only becoming more easily
> available.

Does it?  I don't think there is any commercially viable, server-class
arm64 hardware you can buy today.  How can you promise long-term
support for hardware that does not actually exist?