Bits from the Release Team: Cambridge sprint update
During the wonderful mini-DebConf at Cambridge, the Release Team had a sprint
and other discussions. Some of the discussed topics are worth sharing, so here
we go.
A future for the i386 architecture
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Insofar as they still do, we anticipate that the kernel, d-i and images teams
will cease to support i386 in the near future. Following that, there are two
routes into running i386:
1. as a multi-arch option on an otherwise amd64 system
2. as an i386 chroot on another architecture system
We're not planning to make i386 a partial architecture in the way [1] Ubuntu
has, arch:any will still contain i386 so everything builds by
default. Maintainers who wish to drop i386 support can do so *after*
coordination with the reverse (build) dependencies of their package, as with
dropping support for any other architecture. We also like to note that we have
no opposition to changes to the baseline when these changes land (it's a port
matter).
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