RISC-V architecture is marked as "unofficial"

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 07:34, Robie Basak <racb at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> The Technical Board confirmed today to delegate these decisions to the
> Release Team, with the following guidance:
>
> "The release team considers the quality of support to meet both user and
> developer expectations, in agreement with the Security team."
>
> Marc already +1'd on behalf of the security team, and Utkarsh did so in
> the meeting on behalf of the release team, so this is approved for
> riscv64. In the future, it's fine for the Release Team to do so
> directly.
>
> On the point about delays for security updates due to build times, the
> TB suggests that:
>
> "the Release / Security teams post a notice that "Updates take longer
> for the riscv64 architecture as a side effect of the nature of the
> architecture - despite this, it is considered an 'official'
> architecture" or something to this effect"
>
> ...but to be clear this isn't a hard requirement, since decisions are
> delegated to the Release Team.
>
> These needs someone to do the following to implement:
>
> ```
> das = lp.load('https://api.launchpad.net/devel/ubuntu/questing/riscv64')
> das.official = True
> das.lp_save()
> ```
>
> It seems that this requires a Launchpad admin and the TB do not have
> permission to make the change directly. Michael will arrange this.
>

This has now been done. Enjoy your newly official riscv64 port of Ubuntu
everyone :-)

Cheers,
mwh
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