Re: Release Team Sprint Results

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

[re-adding -devel@]

On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 21:20 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 13:08 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan,
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 11:52:31AM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> [...]
> > >    - i486 support dropped
> > 
> > I'm rather certain that i486 hasn't been supported in Debian for at least
> > the past 4 years (and probably much longer, my memory is fuzzy; but as a
> > data point, https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00687.html).
> > Why is this on the release team's radar as something that needs to be
> > documented in the release notes for jessie?
> 
> I believe this was intended as a reference to this change in the latest
> Linux kernel upload:
> 
>   * [i386] Rename 486 flavour to 586, as it has not worked on 486
>     processors since we enabled CC_STACKPROTECTOR (Closes: #766105)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam