On Saturday, August 16, 2025 5:28:24 AM Mountain Standard Time John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13 2025, Aryan Karamtoth wrote: > > i386 has been phased out a long time ago by many software projects as well > > as > > operating systems. Even in Debian, it was still on life support and now that > > life support is gone. > > Without getting into a debate over whether i386 should or should not be > dropped, as someone that runs other 32-bit archs, I wonder why armhf and > armel weren't similarly targeted? The core of the answer to the question is that significant numbers of upstream projects have dropped i386 support, making it untenable as a full architecture in Debian. We simply can’t fork all those upstream projects to maintain support. The same thing can’t be said for armhf, where a lot of upstream projects maintain support for it. In other words, this wasn’t really a decision Debian made by itself, but one the entire technology community made and which Debian followed. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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