Re: About i386 support
Hello,
Tomas Pospisek, le mar. 21 mai 2024 17:22:47 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > Quoting Victor Gamper (2024-05-17 21:58:58)
> > > For i386 there is a severe lack of person-power. Do you want to start
> > > contributing your free-time for several years to come to d-i and
> > > other areas
> > > which are needed to keep i386 more alive for longer?
>
> > On 18.05.24 03:15, rhys@neoquasar.org wrote:
> >> That depends. What would be required of such a person? I also have
> >> several i386-class machines that run Debian (though only one that can
> >> run Debian 12).
>
> On 18.05.24 15:16, Maite Gamper wrote:
>
> > Whilst I can't for sure say how much free time I'll have, I'd like
> > to try and contribute. How would you get started with that?
>
> There's somewhere a page that is showing how much of the archive is built by
> architecture. A search engine should help you finding that page. Pick the
> package that is furthest down the stack of package dependencies that is not
> building on i386.
It's probably not that easy to find.
The page I know about that would suit best would be the Build-Attempted
and Failed sections of:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=i386&suite=sid
> Find out why. Fix the bug. Check if there's a bug report
> about the problem. Send a patch. If the maintainer doesn't have time then
> become a Debian Maintainer [or] Developer yourself, consult with the
> package's maintainers and upload fixed packages.
Yup
Samuel
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