RISC-V architecture is marked as "unofficial"

[Mark Shuttleworth]

>
> Enjoy your newly official riscv64 port of Ubuntu everyone :-)


:rocket: :)

Mark

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 at 07:07, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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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