I realized that the release-notes list armel as supported arch, but there is
no debian-installer for this arch anymore.

Maybe we should add a sentence about this somewhere?

Thoughts?

Thank you for the reminder, I thought about this last week but
immediately forgot about it again.

I was wondering what the official armel architecture status is now.
Is it in the same boat as i386, or something different?

armel will be dropped after the trixie release, so forky will release
without armel.

The last discussion of that was in the thread starting at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/08/msg00003.html.

Cheers

* Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> [250801 15:32]:

Thanks!

So the release-notes could say something like:

--- i/source/issues.rst
+++ w/source/issues.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,23 @@ possible, or retiring the hardware.
  `Cross-grading <https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading>`__ without a
  reinstall is a technically possible, but risky, alternative.

+.. _armel_last_release:
+
+Last release for armel
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+From trixie, armel is no longer supported as a regular architecture:
+there is no Debian installer for armel systems, and only Raspberry
+Pi Zero, Zero W and 1 are supported by the kernel packages.
+
+Users running armel systems can upgrade to trixie, provided their
+hardware is supported by the kernel packages, or they use a third-party
+kernel.
+
+trixie will be the last release for the armel architecture. Debian
+recommends, where possible, reinstalling armel systems as armhf or arm64,
+or retiring the hardware.
+
  .. _mips_removed:

  MIPS architectures removed


Corrections, comments, insight, etc welcome.

Chris

Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:

Elsewhere we've mostly standardised on "serial comma", which would
mean "Raspberry Pi Zero, Zero W, and 1" - that seems clearer to me.
Or we might want to reorder it as "Raspberry Pi 1, Zero, and Zero W"
if that was the order the models appeared in (I assume "1" is the
2012 version that originally didn't have a version number).

* Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> [250801 17:20]:

I've applied this and pushed it to https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/303

Lets continue there.

Chris

Which was merged on 2025-08-09.

Paul