Hi Martin, On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 08:18:54AM +0100, Martin Wimpress wrote: > Excuse the top posting, only have a phone available.
> Ubuntu MATE works with a few organisations around the world, one in my own > country, that refurbish donated computers, install them with Ubuntu MATE > and give (or sell them for next to nothing) to schools, disadvantaged > families and people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford a computer. > I'll get in touch with them and find how, or if, this decision would affect > them. For various reasons (e.g. compatibility with legacy 32-bit apps on the desktop; IoT devices running Ubuntu Core), we should not expect to be dropping i386 as an architecture from the archive before 18.04. Individual flavor communities should therefore feel comfortable making their own decision about whether to continue providing i386 images in 18.04, independent of what we decide for the Ubuntu Desktop and Server flavors - with the caveat that, since the forcing function for dropping these flavors is security supportability of key applications, community flavors should avoid representing to their users a level of support that they are in no position to deliver on. > I saw a mention of armhf in this discussion. Does this proposal put the > armhf archive in jeopardy? Neither armhf nor i386 should be dropped from the archive in the 18.04 time frame; both are supported architectures for snappy Ubuntu Core. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] > Regards, Martin. > On 29 Jun 2016 8:02 a.m., "Jeremy Bicha" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Seth Arnold <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I propose that 16.04 LTS should be the last release with i386 support. > > > That way we don't leave anyone with a choice of (a) keep running > > > known-insecure 17.10 in 2018 or (b) figure out how to do a downgrade > > > back to 16.04 LTS. > > > > +1 Dropping the i386 install disk is much better immediately after an > > LTS instead of immediately before. > > > > > I'm not sure how we acheive this specific goal but I think we shouldn't > > > encourage i386 (or armhf?) users off of 16.04 LTS. > > > > We can tell update-manager and do-release-upgrade to not allow > > upgrading i386 with an explanation of why. That should send a big > > signal that it is no longer officially supported. > > > > Jeremy
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