Re: Arch qualification for bookworm: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

[Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:46 AM Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 2022-07-16 at 11:20 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
[...]
> i386 is anchient in tech terms it was introduced in 1985. If debian wants
> to keep supporting 32 bit OS then it should bump up to i686.
[...]

We did that years ago.  We just didn't rename the architecture.

Ben.

The architecture should be renamed for clarity. There is a huge difference between i386 and i686.

 

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