From: helmut@subdivi.de 
  
 Hello, 
  
 As others already clarified the question of whether it is supported, 
 allow me to suggest options. 
  
 On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 12:14:47PM +0000, Haddad, Serge wrote: 
 > Our systems in the field run on an armv5 chip (armel architecture) which we 
 can't replace with newer boards with a different architecture. 
  
 There still are some options left. As of now, armel is still in the 
 Debian archive and still building packages. Packages will degrade (e.g. 
 stop building). This will be particularly noticeable when it comes to 
 atomic operations as armel tends to require -latomic in non-obvious 
 places. Eventually it will be removed from the main archive and you may 
 continue supporting it as a port. 
  
 If your target package set is small (< 300 source packages) and you are 
 provisioning your devices using images (i.e. not using apt/dpkg to 
 install updates), you may consider using Debian as a source distribution 
 and build everything from source (like Yocto). 
  
 As Ben indicated, armel is not supported by LTS at present. If you were 
 to look into commercially supported Debian armel, that would certainly 
 be more expensive. 
  
 It's not like running out of options, but you're right in looking into 
 this question now already. 
  
 Helmut 
  
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