Dropping ARM?

Posted Sep 2, 2005 0:01 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
Parent article: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

> Older ports, such as m68k and arm, are expected to reach
> a natural end-of-life to a point where it no longer is
> possible for Debian and the port's porters to support it,
> at which point the port would then, of course, be dropped.

I understand that new m68k machines are very thin on the ground
but there are new ARMs everywhere by the million. This
architecture is not about to go away! Perhaps Debian is short
of active ARM porters, but it's nowhere near a 'natural
end-of-life'.

Does anyone know what the story is here?