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Re: About i386 support

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Hi Maite, hi Rhys,


don't top-post. That breaks the flow of the arguments being argued about.

>> *From:* Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 17, 2024 15:48
>> *To:* Victor Gamper; debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>> *Subject:* Re: About i386 support
>>
>> Quoting Victor Gamper (2024-05-17 21:58:58)
>> > Is there a reason to do this? If so, what would be required to keep 
>> the i386
>> > version, seeing as it still is important and used?
>>
>> anything can be done if there are enough contributors who care.
>>
>> For i386 there is a severe lack of person-power. Do you want to start
>> contributing your free-time for several years to come to d-i and other 
>> areas
>> which are needed to keep i386 more alive for longer?

 > On 18.05.24 03:15, rhys@neoquasar.org wrote:
 >> That depends. What would be required of such a person? I also have
 >> several i386-class machines that run Debian (though only one that can
 >> run Debian 12).

On 18.05.24 15:16, Maite Gamper wrote:

 > Whilst I can't for sure say how much free time I'll have, I'd like
 > to try and contribute. How would you get started with that?

There's somewhere a page that is showing how much of the archive is 
built by architecture. A search engine should help you finding that 
page. Pick the package that is furthest down the stack of package 
dependencies that is not building on i386. Find out why. Fix the bug. 
Check if there's a bug report about the problem. Send a patch. If the 
maintainer doesn't have time then become a Debian Maintainer oder 
Developer yourself consult with the package's maintainers and upload 
fixed packages.
*t

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About i386 support Victor Gamper <victor@wenzeslaus.de> - 2024-05-17 22:10 +0200
  Re: About i386 support Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> - 2024-05-17 22:50 +0200
    Re: About i386 support rhys@neoquasar.org - 2024-05-18 03:20 +0200
      Re: About i386 support Maite Gamper <victor@wenzeslaus.de> - 2024-05-18 15:20 +0200
        Re: About i386 support Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> - 2024-05-21 18:00 +0200
          Re: About i386 support Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2024-05-21 18:10 +0200
  Re: About i386 support Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2024-05-17 23:20 +0200
  Re: About i386 support Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2024-05-18 07:40 +0200
  Re: About i386 support "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-05-18 12:30 +0200
    Re: About i386 support Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2024-05-18 12:50 +0200
    Re: About i386 support Victor Gamper <victor@wenzeslaus.de> - 2024-05-19 15:10 +0200
      Re: About i386 support Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2024-05-19 17:20 +0200
      Re: About i386 support Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2024-05-19 18:00 +0200
    Re: About i386 support Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> - 2024-05-26 22:10 +0200

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