Le Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:20:30AM +0000, Debian FTP Masters a écrit : > We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following > package(s) have been removed from unstable: > > debian-installer | 20240914 | i386 > > ------------------- Reason ------------------- > ROM; i386 support goes away > ----------------------------------------------
Hello everybody, I really feel lost regarding the status of i386. It seems that it is falling appart piece by piece, but on the other hand, it is still a release architecture, meaning that for arch:any packages that do not support it the random Debian Developer needs to do a lot of manual work, bug management, uploads, reverse-dependency chain traversals, FTP master removel requests, etc. Plus enduring the anxiety of worrying to carry some social stygma fir not doing enough to support non-amd64 architectures. Can we organise ourselves so that whaterver the future of i386 is, it does not consume unpaid volunteer work for nothing ? If the kernel team and the installer team could withdraw support, can the package maintainers of scientific computing software do so too? Is there a way to do it in a single operation instead of filling plenty of bugs and modifying plenty of debian/control files? Life is too short to spend our time on doing that. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
