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

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On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 00:41, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

> > In my opinion the most important message is this:

> >> > [----- Forwarded message from Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> -----]
> >> > 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?

Some discussion around those questions occurred in the thread from
which Andrei forwarded one message. The thread begins here:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2020/12/msg00139.html

so that's probably a good place to begin reading for anyone interested
in this topic.

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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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