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. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue