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Bug#1036358: marked as done (release-notes: Debian 12 expected to be last release w/ installer for i386)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #1036358,
regarding release-notes: Debian 12 expected to be last release w/ installer for i386
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Package: release-notes
X-Debbugs-Cc: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

On Fri, 2023-05-19 at 15:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I had been thinking about doing similar for installer images too, but
> with other work going on too I think it got too late in the cycle to
> make that change. My plan is therefore to ship i386 installer images
> for bookworm as normal (including bookworm point releases going
> forwards), but to disable those builds for testing/trixie
> ~immediately after the release.

I suggest to already document this in the release notes for bookworm,
possibly in Section 2.1 (Supported architectures) or a subsection in
Section 5 (Issues to be aware of for bookworm).

Maybe something along these lines:

+---
| Debian 12 is expected to be the last Debian release providing
| full support for i386.  Debian 13 will only partially support
| i386 and no longer provide installation media for i386.
|
| We recommend hosts still running the i386 port to be upgraded
| to amd64.  Legacy i386 software can be run using multi-arch,
| chroot environments or containers.
+---

Ansgar

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On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 05:35:49PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Fri, 2023-05-19 at 15:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > I had been thinking about doing similar for installer images too, but
> > with other work going on too I think it got too late in the cycle to
> > make that change. My plan is therefore to ship i386 installer images
> > for bookworm as normal (including bookworm point releases going
> > forwards), but to disable those builds for testing/trixie
> > ~immediately after the release.
> 
> I suggest to already document this in the release notes for bookworm,
> possibly in Section 2.1 (Supported architectures) or a subsection in
> Section 5 (Issues to be aware of for bookworm).
> 
> Maybe something along these lines:
> 
> +---
> | Debian 12 is expected to be the last Debian release providing
> | full support for i386.  Debian 13 will only partially support
> | i386 and no longer provide installation media for i386.
> |
> | We recommend hosts still running the i386 port to be upgraded
> | to amd64.  Legacy i386 software can be run using multi-arch,
> | chroot environments or containers.
> +---

release-notes got (at least) three commits to deal with this:

https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/commit/ad6de3b4b4e5f2daa71c5af81bcdacc8bda828cb
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/commit/0bb57bade2b08c15e052d0a34841d306d788341d
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/commit/aac587ce34c0000d5a780c89c5d57229f95b53d7

I hope that's enough.

Chris

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