Hi,
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.
Statement from the Release Team: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html Paul
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