On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 11:37:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit : > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html > Thanks, I read it at the time but I did not understand the meaning: > do you really expect that we progressively edit thousands of > debian/control files and file thousands of FTP removal bugs?
no, I don't think so. > I am not complaining about effort to keep useful i386 packages in > Debian, but about the lack of tools to remove the other i386 packages > in a smarter ways. Can we not just have a way to send a signed email > to a bot somewhere with a list of packages, and voilà, they are > removed seamlessly and we can focus on other tasks? merely dropping i386 support for a package is not what https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html asks/offers you to do, which is *coordinating with reverse (build) dependencies first*. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ It started as a virus and has mutated into an IQ test.
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