On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM Aoife Moloney via devel-announce
<devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> By dropping completely the i686 architecture, Fedora will decrease the
> burden on package maintainers, release engineering, infrastructure,
> and users.

A completely out-of-the-box alternative
to reducing package maintainer efforts
(I don't like this idea, but I think it should
be explicitly rejected) is that any package
which fails to build or fails functionality in
i686 can, at the packagers choice, either
be fixed by them, or have an ExcludeArch
added such that it will fall off the end of
Fedora support (notice to some list for
adding an ExcludeArch under the
"He's dead, Jim" heading is probably
appropriate).  Those that need/want/wish
for i686 support to continue for that
package will be expected to offer a tested
in a COPR?) and testable MR to fix the
build/functionality  This places much of
the burden of support onto the people
who want such support (and while I do
realize that some of the people who want
support may not be able to provide the
MR, that means they will need to
find/fund someone else to do so.
TANSTAAFL).

One of the many problems of such an
approach is that it will not be possible
to predict when something really
important will break, resulting in
dozens (or all) of other packages/builds
breaking.

Now is the time to reject this alternative.
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