• Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

    From Charles Plessy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 13 15:50:02 2024
    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
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    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

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    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

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