RISC-V architecture is marked as "unofficial"

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:42:32PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 04:53:32PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> On pages like https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/plucky the riscv64 architecture
>> is marked as "unofficial".
>
>Looks like this corresponds to the "official" attribute of the
>underlying distro_arch_series API object in Launchpad, which presumably
>the TB can adjust as required.
>
>I think you're implying a request to changing the value of this
>attribute to True?
>
>If so, that sounds like something for the Release Team to decide, having
>consulted the teams they consider relevant. I imagine they'll want to
>ensure that there aren't any implied expectations that won't be met, or
>any technical failures due to implied assumptions about the meaning of
>that field.
>
>Presumably we'd also make this change only in the development release,
>rather than trying to change history in existing stable releases?
>
>In the past we had people like Steve who would immediately know the
>implications and we'd all trust to make the right call, but now we
>don't, so we have to be more careful :-/
>
>Release Team: could you make a recommendation here please, for the
>Technical Board to consider?

(Speaking only for myself)

FWIW, I can't think of any technical implications of changing this field 
nowadays.  From a quick grep, the only thing I can see is that it might 
cause the mirror prober to do a bit more work, but that shouldn't be a 
problem.

I would recommend only changing it for the development release, just in 
case there's some subtle piece of IS machinery lying around that might 
be confused by a change in stable releases.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]