Hello, Tomas Pospisek, le mar. 21 mai 2024 17:22:47 +0200, a ecrit: > > > Quoting Victor Gamper (2024-05-17 21:58:58) > > > For i386 there is a severe lack of person-power. Do you want to start > > > contributing your free-time for several years to come to d-i and > > > other areas > > > which are needed to keep i386 more alive for longer? > > > On 18.05.24 03:15, r...@neoquasar.org wrote: > >> That depends. What would be required of such a person? I also have > >> several i386-class machines that run Debian (though only one that can > >> run Debian 12). > > On 18.05.24 15:16, Maite Gamper wrote: > > > Whilst I can't for sure say how much free time I'll have, I'd like > > to try and contribute. How would you get started with that? > > There's somewhere a page that is showing how much of the archive is built by > architecture. A search engine should help you finding that page. Pick the > package that is furthest down the stack of package dependencies that is not > building on i386.
It's probably not that easy to find. The page I know about that would suit best would be the Build-Attempted and Failed sections of: https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=i386&suite=sid > Find out why. Fix the bug. Check if there's a bug report > about the problem. Send a patch. If the maintainer doesn't have time then > become a Debian Maintainer [or] Developer yourself, consult with the > package's maintainers and upload fixed packages. Yup Samuel
