Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?
Le Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:20:30AM +0000, Debian FTP Masters a écrit :
> We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
> package(s) have been removed from unstable:
>
> debian-installer | 20240914 | i386
>
> ------------------- Reason -------------------
> ROM; i386 support goes away
> ----------------------------------------------
Hello everybody,
I really feel lost regarding the status of i386.
It seems that it is falling appart piece by piece, but on the other
hand, it is still a release architecture, meaning that for arch:any
packages that do not support it the random Debian Developer needs to do
a lot of manual work, bug management, uploads, reverse-dependency chain
traversals, FTP master removel requests, etc. Plus enduring the anxiety
of worrying to carry some social stygma fir not doing enough to support
non-amd64 architectures.
Can we organise ourselves so that whaterver the future of i386 is, it
does not consume unpaid volunteer work for nothing ? If the kernel team
and the installer team could withdraw support, can the package
maintainers of scientific computing software do so too? Is there a way
to do it in a single operation instead of filling plenty of bugs and
modifying plenty of debian/control files? Life is too short to spend
our time on doing that.
Have a nice day,
Charles
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Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan
Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy
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