Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 02:54:37PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > The quantity of hardware is useful data, but I think this is also a place > where it's important to stress the specific problem that Debian has, > namely that we need people to do the work. >... The list of Debian release architect

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 01:22:11PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 01:53 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] > > While the ongoing > > costs of maintaining a full port were a consideration, of equal concern was > > the fact that we believed we would not be able to provide secur

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:46:26PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: >... > I think it's necessary to consider what the purpose of the i386 port is, > and set expectations and an appropriate baseline based on that. > > I see two possible use-cases for i386: > > 1. It's a compatibility layer for legacy