V Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 07:30:44PM +0100, Fabio Valentini napsal(a):
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 7:22 PM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Once upon a time, Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > == Summary ==
> > >
> > > Package maintainers are encouraged to actively stop building their
> > > packages for i686, especially if supporting this architecture requires
> > > significant investment of time or resources, for no benefit. This will
> > > not apply to packages which are still depended on by other i686
> > > packages, or which get used in a "multilib" context (i.e. for running
> > > 32-bit applications on x86_64).
> >
> > It's unclear what this actually means for packagers. Should
> > ExcludeArch: lines be added to spec files?
>
> Ah, yes, thanks for catching that. This was indeed my intention:
> Packagers add "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}" to the package in question, if it
> is safe to do so (unused / leaf packages only).
> I forgot to add that detail to the proposal, will add it now.
>
Do you know that Packaging Guidelines require for each of this exclusion
creating a tracking bug for the affected package in Bugzilla
<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_architecture_build_failures>?
We should amend the guidelines not to mandate opening the bugs for this
i686 retirement.
-- Petr
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