On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 12:56:38PM -0400, Gizmo Chicken wrote: > > I believe deleting i386 and armhf before 18.10 is the politest thing to do
> Provided that i386 and armhf won't be supported in 20.04 LTS (which > seems to be the case), I fully agree that such support should be > removed *before* 18.10. Those needing such support should be > encouraged to remain on the current LTS, and not lured to 18.10 with a > false hope of continued support. > Removing support before 18.10 would also be a good way to draw out > early feedback. If enough backlash (and technically feasible to do > so), perhaps i386 and armhf could be (reluctantly) added back for one > final LTS, namely 20.04 LTS (and maybe tested in 19.10). But > hopefully that wouldn't be needed. Rebootstrapping an architecture is a non-trivial amount of work. It is exceedingly unlikely that, having taken the decision to drop the architecture, we would then decide to reintroduce it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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