On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 19:58:30 -0000,
 Leigh Scott <leigh123li...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:06:01 -0600,
  Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net&gt; wrote:

The Fedora 36 beta is likely to slip because firefox was not building
successfully on i686, but was on other arches.


That is a very poor excuse for a slip, why would any one need it?

That is specified in the release criteria. I believe the rational is covered there if you are really interested. In this case it would have had people doing an upgrade to test things, downgrading firefox, and that breaks profiles. So shipping an old firefox wouldn't have been a good idea. I think firefox is the only browser that comes with Workstation, so not including it was going to be undesireable.

Why not add an ExcludeArch to fix?

As I stated in my followup things were a bit more complicated as the main i686 issue was in gcc. Firefox needed a new gcc to be built with a fix, so excludearch for firefox wouldn't have helped. Using excludearch for gcc would have had reprocussions and I don't see how that would have been practical.
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