UPupEF32 is the latest version of UPup.
It is built from a combination of Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (STR 19.10) and Focal Fossa (LTS 20.04) components using Woof-CE.
The combination is required because Ubuntu have reduced their support for 32-bit components and Focal Fossa no longer has all the components needed to build UPup. For UPupEF, 239 components come from Eoan and 1066 components from Focal (see attachments - remove -false.gz).
Eoan Ermine reached EOL in July 2020 (end of life Short Term Release) and will receive no further updates.
Focal Fossa being LTS receives support until April 2025.
Groovy Gorilla (STR 20.10) will be released 22 October 2020 and will be supported until July 2021.
So the question to be discussed is "What should UPup be built from when Groovy Gorilla is released?"
Possibilities:
1. Do nothing - continue with UPupEF and ignore GG
2. Update Focal components to Groovy (if available) - UPupEG (but stay with Eoan)
3. Update to Groovy and replace as many unsupported Eoan components as possible from a "Deb" build that still provides 32-bit components (e.g. Debian or Devuan or Trisquel?) - but is there any logic to support such a mixed system? More sensible? to forget Ubuntu for 32-bit Pups and wait for the DPup developers to make the next DPup32.....
4. Something else?
Thoughts welcomed.... particularly which EE components will potentially cause problems from being unsupported.