On Mon, 2026-01-26 at 10:10 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Wine is not the only use-case for i386. Even if Wine no longer needs > i386 binaries, native Linux binaries compiled for i386 (32-bit) still > require a subset of the i386 architecture. In practice, this mostly > means non-free games.
I think (some?) Brother inkjet/laser printer drivers also need at least 32-bit glibc? I don’t remember if they need other 32-bit libraries too, but my dad has one of those... I did a quick check, and (at least for some printers) the "LPR driver" is still only distributed as e.g. 'dcp750cwlpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb' or 'mfc990cwlpr-1.1.2-2.i386.deb', but I see no additional dependencies listed. -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
