On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 9:54 AM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 it because research on certain network controllers
requires it. But, I can move said research to Debian so it is not a
blocker to me.
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