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Re: About i386 support

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Hello,

Tomas Pospisek, le mar. 21 mai 2024 17:22:47 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > Quoting Victor Gamper (2024-05-17 21:58:58)
> > > 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.

It's probably not that easy to find.

The page I know about that would suit best would be the Build-Attempted
and Failed sections of:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=i386&suite=sid

> 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 [or] Developer yourself, consult with the
> package's maintainers and upload fixed packages.

Yup

Samuel

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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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