On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 14:54, David Cantrell wrote: > Hi, > > Our most recent FESCo meeting involved discussing the proposal to drop i686 > builds of jdk8,11,17 from Fedora 37 onward. The topic quickly changed to the > larger question of "what do people use i686 packages for?" > > Rather than guess, we wanted to ask the community what you use i686 packages > for in Fedora. There are no wrong answers here. We are seeking information. > > Why? Since the removal of the i686 kernel in Fedora, we want to reduce the > number of i686 packages provided in the repo. As time marches on, the ability > to build a lot of things for i686 becomes unrealistic or even impossible. > Remember it goes beyond providing builds...providing support, bug fixes, and > security fixes for those packages too. Maybe some things using i686 packages > now can move to x86_64 packages. We do not know yet, but a goal is to figure > out what packages, if anything, can drop their i686 builds. > > NOTE: Nothing is changing now. We are in an information gathering phase. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > If you use i686 packages for something now, please respond to this thread. I use the ancient Linux builds of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Air as well as Wine for some games. For Adobe Air, there's some hope for a 64-bit redistributable version since it was taken over by Harman: https://airsdk.harman.com/ , but we're still not there yet: https://github.com/airsdk/Adobe-Runtime-Support/issues/1267#issuecomment-944205763 Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
