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Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

From deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?
Date 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
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Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here,
> assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following
> debian-devel.
> 

this is true - thank you

I became aware of the i386 issue on the geode dev news list (AFAIR) some
time ago (may be 6months).

> In my opinion the most important message is this:
> 
>> > What's perhaps more significant is that i386 is now getting to the
>> > point where it requires such prodding, instead of being an assumed
>> > default architecture.  That means that the folks who care about it
>> > should probably start thinking about building more organization and
>> > structure around the work, recruiting people, building a task list, and
>> > so forth, instead of just assuming "oh, everything will work on i386,
>> > it always has." Volunteering to do that sort of coordination is helpful
>> > even if you aren't debugging FTBFS problems.
> 
> 
> That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386
> support you should probably look into contributing.

What does it mean exactly? Contribute how and where?

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FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support  for 3 years? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 10:10 +0100
  Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 11:50 +0100
    Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term  support for 3 years? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 12:50 +0100
      Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
        Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term  support for 3 years? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-15 17:30 +0100
        Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support  for 3 years? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 01:00 +0100
          Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 09:20 +0100
      Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
        Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-21 12:50 +0100
          Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3          years? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-12-21 15:50 +0100
            Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-12-21 18:00 +0100
          Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-12-21 16:30 +0100
            Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-21 16:50 +0100
              Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3          years? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-12-22 01:30 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-22 12:40 +0100
              Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-26 23:50 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-27 12:10 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-27 17:00 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-27 23:20 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-28 02:50 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-27 19:20 +0100

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