Re: amd64 as default architecture

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> > Eventually (wheezy+2? +3?) we would stop building a kernel package for
>> > i386.
>> 
>> As in drop the i386 arch?
>
> No, keep i386 userland only.  Though we might consider reducing even
> that to a 'partial architecture' that has only libraries (similar to
> ia32-libs today, only cleaner).
>
> Ben.

Which basically means i386 is droped but we still support 32bit stuff
for amd64.

Isn't there still a large demand for i386 in the industry/embedded
sector?

MfG
        Goswin