On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:33:07PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > [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) Ok, well, given that Debian didn't work on 486 for years before that, I think this is a non-event that doesn't need to be release-noted. "However, given that this fatal bug has not (so far as I know) been reported in the 5 years since it was introduced in unstable, I suspect you're one of a very few people still using Debian on a 486, and you may find many other things broken." https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766105#28 -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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