On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:59 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > > On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > >> > Eventually (wheezy+2? +3?) we would stop building a kernel package for > >> > i386. > >> > >> As in drop the i386 arch? > > > > No, keep i386 userland only. Though we might consider reducing even > > that to a 'partial architecture' that has only libraries (similar to > > ia32-libs today, only cleaner). > > > > Ben. > > Which basically means i386 is droped but we still support 32bit stuff > for amd64. > > Isn't there still a large demand for i386 in the industry/embedded > sector? I don't know; nor whether they use Debian much. But those are two sectors not well known for keeping their software updated, i.e. they might not care about a lack of future releases.. I'm not suggesting there's any need to decide a timescale for this, anyway. I'm just proposing that we plan to have that transitional stage for some time before actually removing i386. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates
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