Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

[Hakan Bayındır]

> On 8 Jun 2023, at 06:19, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 11:45 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 
>> 2. i386 as a multiarch foreign architecture to run legacy binaries on
>>    modern x86_64 systems
>>    2a. legacy native Linux i386 binaries
>>    2b. legacy Windows i386 binaries via Wine (which requires a somewhat
>>        complete i386 Linux library stack)
> 
> Would it be feasible to drop i386 but still support this use-case by
> requiring folks to use historical releases on archive.debian.org?

Wouldn’t this make installation of i386 packages harder and harder as packages 
diverge from the dependencies stated in the historical packages? This will 
defeat the very purpose of having i386 as an installable compatibility layer in 
my opinion.

Cheers,

H.

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