[Bug 2061990] Re: Please RM armhf binaries

[Dave Jones]

Potentially affected images:

As noted above this potentially affects *any* armhf image with boot
artifacts that require flashing (that are deb based). This potentially
affects our older Pi server armhf images (which, although they don't use
mtd-utils, do use flash-kernel). However, we're not producing Pi server
armhf images this cycle and it is my understanding that do-release-
upgrades has a quirk to prevent upgraders on that architecture.

It does not affect our Pi desktop images, which have never been armhf
based.

This change potentially affects any flavours which produce such images.
However, there has never (to my knowledge) been an official flavour with
an armhf desktop image for the Pi.

Further mitigation ideas:

flash-kernel *could* be modified to merely recommend mtd-utils and still
operate on platforms where mtd-utils itself isn't used for flashing boot
artifacts (such as the Pi) but obviously this complicates the dependency
situation (and seeds) on those platforms that *do* require mtd-utils.

** Description changed:

  LP: #2060214 (FTBFS) was eventually resolved by disabling failing tests
  on armhf to enable migration. Unfortunately, mtd-utils is the facility
  used by flash-kernel (on several boards, as it's used in the "generic"
  method) to flash boot artifacts to their destination.
  
- Given that failure to flash these a successfully risks subsequent boot
+ Given that failure to flash these successfully risks subsequent boot
  failure (of a nature that is particularly difficult to resolve on
  certain armhf boards), and given that we're now not certain that the
  mechanism will operate correctly on armhf, please remove mtd-utils (and
  its dependency, flash-kernel) from armhf in noble.

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  Please RM armhf binaries

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