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Re: Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof



* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [150825 03:09]:
> Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org> writes:
> 
> > - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are
> >   there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)?
> >   Discussion that we need to get rid of it one day should be started.
> 
> Can we fully support cross-grading to amd64 before we do that?  My
> remaining i386 systems, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, are systems
> that I've been continuously dist-upgrading for some time precisely because
> I don't want to rebuild a system from scratch.

Sounds like a good idea. I don't expect to get rid of i386 for the
next few cycles but it will need to happen one day. 


Andi


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