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    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 7 11:00:02 2025
    Hello!

    Is it already known whether Trixie will support i686 or not?

    https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html
    says it supports i686, but it looks like the page was copied from
    bookworm.

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  • From Felix Miata@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 7 11:20:02 2025
    Marco Moock composed on 2025-03-07 10:38 (UTC+0100):

    Is it already known whether Trixie will support i686 or not?

    https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html
    says it supports i686, but it looks like the page was copied from
    bookworm.

    I have multiple Trixie installations on x86 (P4 32bit). New kernels stopped coming
    with 6.10.12, but full-upgrades continue to upgrade other packages. ISTR seeing a
    thread a while back about Debian kernel maintainers refusing to keep 32bit x86 alive.
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  • From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Fri Mar 7 15:00:02 2025
    Hi,

    On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:38:14AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
    Is it already known whether Trixie will support i686 or not?

    Yes, there have not been kernels or installers built for it for some
    time.

    https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html
    says it supports i686, but it looks like the page was copied from
    bookworm.

    It will support i386 packages but will not have an i386 installer or
    kernel. You could install bookworm and dist-upgrade to it, leaving you
    with an old and (explicitly instead of effectively) unmaintained kernel.

    If your device supports an amd64 kernel then I think you are much better
    off switching to that kernel in-place while using bookworm and then
    letting it dist-upgrade to trixie. Though a full reinstall to amd64
    would be even better, of course.

    Thanks,
    Andy

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