On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 01:23:06PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
One issue that keeps on bothering me since Trixie is that we ship i386 without any kernel whatsoever. Yes, I agree, 32-bit architectures are largely deprecated, and most of us have moved on to 64-bit architectures, but shipping i386 as a demi-architecture simply doesn't make sense.
It does, when you consider the reason it's shipped: to ship libraries needed to run i386 software without introducing a new special concept that would allow us to specifically ship only libraries.
More recently, Go and Rust developers added "something SSE2 or newer" to their baseline. Bumping i386's baseline to Pentium 4 would fix this
i386 baseline was bumped to the x86-64 equivalent in trixie.
If Debian will not at least do this much, then let's please do everyone a favor and move i386 to debian-ports completely
This won't do *everyone* a favor. -- WBR, wRAR
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