On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 02:36:32PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On 4/16/12 9:25 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:09:19AM -0400, Michael Terry wrote: > >>On 16/04/12 02:03, Steve Langasek wrote: > >>>And regardless of which we decide to use as the default, both of amd64 and > >>>i386 will continue to be supported architectures for the length of 12.04 > >>>LTS > >>>and will remain available for download. > > > >>There seems to be an unstated assumption that the default > >>recommended architecture needs to stay the same throughout the > >>lifecycle of 12.04 LTS. Is that true? > > > >I don't see us making such a change for a point release. First, we don't > >typically get CDs pressed of point releases; second, there is going to be > >some confusion on the part of users about this change, and I think we can > >better mitigate that if changing it as part of .0 instead of as a point > >release. > > > >>If we end up deciding to stick with i386 for now to better support > >>common hardware, this question will still be re-evaluated for a > >>future release. And when it changes, we could go back and change > >>the default download link and what is installed on the store USB > >>sticks for 12.04 LTS. > > > >We could, but I'm pretty sure it's not worth it at that point. > > > > Relatedly, I'm worried about what happens when these 12.04 users > upgrade to 14.04. It would be really unfortunate to have them still > on 32 bit by that point.
I think that's entirely out of scope. This was a question about the default arch for downloads and CD pressing. Upgrades will continue on the arch they had, which is totally fine since it remains a very support arch. :) > Unless, of course, we have ambitions of supporting automatic > cross-architecture upgrades by then. I'm sure people will attempt this, but doing this automatically is a way off. -Kees -- Kees Cook -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
