On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Marcos Alano <marcoshal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-07-05 12:57 GMT-03:00 Bryan Quigley <bryan.quig...@canonical.com>: >> >> The general ideas are: >> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from >> the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*. >> B. Just drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10. >> C. Keep everything as is for 18.04, and then consider dropping i386 >> in 18.10 timeframe. >> >> Thoughts? > > I think the option A should be put out of discussion or, at least, > analyzed very carefully. That's because some applications for i386 > don't have equivalent for amd64. And other applications depend of some > i386 packages present in the repositories. Big examples are Skype and > Steam. Steam depends of a series of i386 packages for GUI.
Apologies for not making that clearer. We are not considering dropping the entire i386 archive until at *least* after 18.04. So Steam and Skype will still work (but really should make amd64 versions!). The point of A is to prevent people from upgrading to i386 Unity. With just dropping the ISO building, users could still upgrade to a now less supported setup via direct packages. This would block that and we can come up with other transition options in that case (autodetect if 64-bit capable and recommend reinstall, etc) - but that's for a latter discussion I think. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop