On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 05:38:57PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > On 10/26/25 8:21 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Hi > > Hi Bastian, > > > > > We never did a real discussion about architecture baselines before, but I > > think > > we should do that. We also don't have any guidelines what we as Debian > > want to > > actually support. But given that we are a general purpose distribution, we > > have to find a balance. > > > > As a general guidance I would like to aim for a ten to 15 years support > > range > > at release time. > > > It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide > availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in production > environment.
Then an ordinary user would want the 5 to 7 years of support to count from the end of mass sales, since that may be when he bought it. Are we supporting users or manufacturers? -- hendrik
