armel architecture obsoleted for Raring Ringtail

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:27:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> When the armhf architecture was introduced in Ubuntu for 12.04 LTS, it was
> with the intention of transitioning our ARM builds entirely from armel to
> armhf, to take advantage of this more efficient hard-float ABI on the
> supported ARMv7 targets.  We achieved this in 12.04, with all released
> images shipping as armhf instead of armel.
> 
> Now, after a transitional overlap, it's time to take the next step and drop
> the armel architecture from Ubuntu.  We will shortly be removing armel from
> the raring archive.  This allows us to free up builder resources previously
> dedicated for building armel and repurpose them for building armhf.  There
> will continue to be armel builders for previous releases, for building
> stable updates; but from raring on you should expect your packages to build
> for armhf only, not armel.

This was implemented on Friday; raring now no longer contains the armel
architecture.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]