Re: Debian release criteria.
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:26:47PM -0800, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:32:37 +0000
>
> > All software is buggy: it is a matter of luck whether bugs hit you.
>
> =8~/ A hacker might be satisfied with luck. An engineer should not
> be. If I claim to be a package maintainer, I test as broadly as
> feasible. A 32 bit machine is easily found.
>
Sorry, I respectfully disagree. A 32 bit AMD/Intel machine
has barely been manufactured
for >10 years now. If you happen to have a pure 32 bit machine sitting
around, you're probably living on borrowed time.
If you mean running 32 bit on a 64 bit capable machine - why is that
better than running 64 bit code anyway?
Debian is possibly the last major Linux distribution to support 32 bit
on x86 - the others have all given up now.
All best, as ever,
Andy Cater
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Thx, ... P.
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