Re: Suggestions about i386 support

From	Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Suggestions about i386 support
Date	2024-05-19 10:40 +0200
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On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 07:26:28AM +0000, defrag mentation wrote:
> I think some of the i386 support policies needs to be reconsidered.
> 
> Here are some suggestions:
> 
> 1. Move Wine-32 to amd64, and Wine-32 may be compiled to 64-bit time_t.
What will this solve?

> Wine-32 is now in currently dropped i386 DVDs/BDs, not in amd64 DVDs/BDs as it is multiarch-only now, so at least I think moving it to amd64 is needed.
I don't think this is "needed"? Unless you think all i386 packages will be
removed from Debian, which is not the plan?

> 3. For future i386 support:
> 
> If there are not enough human resources, i386 can be dropped completely as Wine-32 is moved to amd64 
Debian wine is not the only thing we want i386 libraries for.

> If someone wants to continue maintaining pure 32-bit device bootable i386, I think recompiling it to be Y2038-safe is still meaningless 
And nobody proposed it.

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