Suggested by sudos here.
To help making our Kirkwood systems visible to Debian upstream, please consider installing this popularity-contest package.
The reason I have not recommended this before because it will automatically generate a anonymous periodic report to Debian some statistics about the architecture of and the packages installed on your system. It's a "phone home" kind of thing everybody wants to avoid. So I did not include it in the basic rootfs.
As you might have known, armel architecture was marked for removal in Debian 14 (Debian 13 Trixe is supported until about 3 years from now). This is due to lack of maintainers' inteterest. And the trend in Linux kernel is also favoring phasing out 32-bit SoCs.
Running this package is not going to change minds about armel being EOL in Debian. However, as mentioned here by 1000001101000, it might persuade some maintainers to make it available as unofficial architecture in Debian Ports.
To help making our Kirkwood systems visible to Debian upstream, please consider installing this popularity-contest package.
The reason I have not recommended this before because it will automatically generate a anonymous periodic report to Debian some statistics about the architecture of and the packages installed on your system. It's a "phone home" kind of thing everybody wants to avoid. So I did not include it in the basic rootfs.
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Description-en: Vote for your favourite packages automatically
The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will
periodically anonymously submit to the Debian developers
statistics about the most used Debian packages on this system.
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This information helps Debian make decisions such as which packages
should go on the first CD. It also lets Debian improve future versions
of the distribution so that the most popular packages are the ones which
are installed automatically for new users.
As you might have known, armel architecture was marked for removal in Debian 14 (Debian 13 Trixe is supported until about 3 years from now). This is due to lack of maintainers' inteterest. And the trend in Linux kernel is also favoring phasing out 32-bit SoCs.
Running this package is not going to change minds about armel being EOL in Debian. However, as mentioned here by 1000001101000, it might persuade some maintainers to make it available as unofficial architecture in Debian Ports.