On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:24:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >... > I have made hundreds of uploads on packages that I am quite certain are > not needed in the supported use case for the i386 partial architecture, > and alltogether, I feel that it i386 issues cost significant amounts of > my "Debian time" without having the joy of seeing i386 users expressing > their satisfaction to still be able to do scientific computing with > up-to-date software on their machines. >...
We will continue to have 1 release architecture and 6 ports architectures that are 32-bit. The usual i386-specific problem is the excess precision of the x87, which goes away with a higher baseline. > Have a nice day, > > Charles cu Adrian

