On 2017-01-25 11:14, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 25 January 2017 at 08:54, Bartłomiej Piotrowski > <bpiotrow...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> Due to the decreasing popularity of i686 among the developers and the >> community, we have decided to phase out the support of this architecture. >> >> The decision means that February ISO will be the last that allows to >> install 32 bit Arch Linux. The next 9 months are deprecation period, >> during which i686 will be still receiving upgraded packages. Starting >> from November 2017, packaging and repository tools will no longer >> require that from maintainers, effectively making i686 unsupported. >> >> However, as there is still some interest in keeping i686 alive, we would >> like to encourage the community to make it happen with our guidance. The >> [archlinux-ports][1] mailing list and Freenode IRC channel will be used >> for further coordination. >> >> [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-ports > > I kept up to date a bit with what people around the net are thinking > about this draft and it appears there is some confusion as to whether > [multilib] will be affected by this. I propose adding the following > sentence: > > "The [multilib] repositories will not be affected by this change." >
I will include that in the final post news that I want to publish this evening, unless there are more suggestions. Bartłomiej