#Debian #armel has reached end of life with the release of #trixie and will not be included in #forky (already being removed from sid).
Unfortunately, that means e-waste for the affected devices, such as several older #RPi editions (unless switching to Raspian, which may or may not even work or support them for longer and is effort anyway).
armel has not been part of #LTS and #ELTS for a while, but this was not a problem as it’s a minority architecture and users could always upgrade (btw, if your armel box is still running bookworm, you’ll want to be on trixie by 2026-06-10).
I asked for it to be included in trixie LTS and ELTS, so that the old hardware can be used mostly securely until about 2035 instead of 2028, and the limiting factor for this is not will or infrastructure but funding. (While most security fixes aren’t specific to one of the architectures in question, there’s still some overhead, and armel is often slower to build and may need some more hand-holding than the newer armhf and arm64, so I believe that funding is actually needed.)
I’m just a private individual running one box with it I got as a gift, so I cannot offer much, but if you care about Debian and can offer funding, please approach @freexian (who organise LTS and offer ELTS as a separate-from-Debian offer) about this (and specifically mention armel).
If someone has connections to organisations involved in devices that cannot run armv7 hardfloat Debian or better, such as the #Raspberry Pi foundation, please ask them to contribute to #Freexian in the same way, so we can have proper Debian on these devices for seven years longer than planned.
Thanks in advance.
David Bremner
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in reply to David Bremner • •@David Bremner extremely so :D
technologically advantaged (because I have multiple copies, with multiple recovery plans in case of outages) first world problem :D
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Quella situazione in cui stai cucendo una gonna, hai svariati metri¹ di stoffa sulle gambe e devi controllare gli appunti², ma sai di averli aggiornati sul portatile, ma sei sul PC, e quindi fai git pull. e ti va in timeout.
la VPS³ su cui hai il repository git è irraggiungibile, e potresti sincronizzare direttamente con il laptop, ma tu sei qui, sotto svariati metri di stoffa, e il portatile è là, spento, dall'altro lato della stanza!
oppure puoi lamentarti su internet fino a che la VPS non torna :D
(e scoprire che non hai fatto push del commit dal laptop)
¹ qui non esiste “scampolo da 90 cm, per una gonna. qui si parte dalla lunghezza caviglie e almeno 3 m di circonferenza dell'orlo o non se ne fa niente.
² quelli che poi diventano istruzioni sul mio sito
³ contabo, se interessa a qualcuno
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Anni fa alla festa PRC di Savona arivò un sarto della Liberia.
Che usava tessuti con dissegni coloratissimi.
E misurava in pollici.
Una delle cuoche fu così contenta di avere solo 48 di girovita che si fece fare 6 vestiti.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Possumantha
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in reply to Possumantha • •@Possumantha the one I'm doing right now is going to be 375 cm (3 panels of 125 cm wide fabric)
with a cage crinoline I guess more than 4 meters would not surprise me (but I still don't have one)
Possumantha
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •ok so what if hyperbolic skirt?
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Possumantha • •@Possumantha error: length is not defined for a fractal :D
(seriously: even with regular gathered flounces I'm not sure what is the correct way to measure them as “hem of the skirt”: when hemming them the ungathered length is the one that matters, but when worn they act more like a skirt where the hem is as long as the *gathered* hem (or just a bit more), but with more thickness)
Possumantha
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Hyperbolic airplane skirt – Andrea Hawksley
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