On 12/12/16 21:51, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2016-12-12 21:51:31 +0100] Bartłomiej Piotrowski: >> In September we discussed upgrading the default -march value for >> packages to include SSE2 (and possibly more instructions). I think the >> general consensus was that we don't agree what we should do and we just >> left the problem intact. >> >> Semi-necrobumping that thread, I want to bring back one proposal – let's >> deprecate i686 architecture. All my machines at home and work are >> x86_64. Building i686 packages is a chore I'm less and less willing to >> do, and I boot up a 32-bit virtual machine only if bug has been reported >> against that architecture. No, I don't do even smoke tests – I assume >> that i686 works if x86_64 does. (Don't beat me up too hard for that.) >> >> To back up my idea, our completely unreliable pkgstats data says that >> 8.53% came from i686 installs, but only a little over 4% is incompatible >> with amd64. Obviously there is no way to verify this data, but I suspect >> that these numbers are even lower in the reality. We're just wasting our >> time. >> >> I'd like to set a certain date of dropping i686 completely. During that >> time, community and/or interested packagers could come up with either >> automated build solution, making it "tier 2" architecture. Otherwise it >> would just die of natural cause. > > That sounds great to me. > > How about June 1st, 2017? It's about six months for now, surely that's > enough time to see things coming for those who still care about i686. > > Cheers. >
If this is going to happens, maybe the ISO of this month should be the last dual, with i686 support.
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