On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 10:32:26PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >... > 1) decide "the i386 architecture is for retrocomputing" and disable > building on it for packages that can't run on retro hardware, or > 2) decide "the i386 architecture is for the legacy software" and raise the > baseline to match the amd64 one, >... > Or we could make two architectures, I guess.
Two architectures would be a *huge* effort with little benefit. With rare exceptions,[1] doing 1) automatically provides 2) until the year 2038 becomes a real problem for 2) in any case. cu Adrian [1] There are a handful "32bit-only and really needs SSE2" packages.
