Re: Release Team Sprint Results

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 13:08 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 11:52:31AM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
[...]
> >    - i486 support dropped
> 
> I'm rather certain that i486 hasn't been supported in Debian for at least
> the past 4 years (and probably much longer, my memory is fuzzy; but as a
> data point, https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00687.html).
> Why is this on the release team's radar as something that needs to be
> documented in the release notes for jessie?

I believe this was intended as a reference to this change in the latest
Linux kernel upload:

  * [i386] Rename 486 flavour to 586, as it has not worked on 486
    processors since we enabled CC_STACKPROTECTOR (Closes: #766105)

Regards,

Adam