i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan

[Jonas Timothy]

But there'll be a version mismatch if there's an update to those libraries, right?

On 2019-06-23 3:31 p.m., Dale Trombley wrote:
A leading Ubuntu developer has said it is “simply not the case” that Ubuntu will drop support for running 32-bit applications in Ubuntu 19.10 and subsequent editions.

Now, in a forum reply on the Ubuntu Discourse, Langasek appears to row back on the notion that 32-bit libraries will be removed wholesale in the ‘Eoan Ermine’, writing:

“I’m sorry that we’ve given anyone the impression that we are ‘dropping support for i386 applications‘. It is simply not the case. What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions.”

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/is-ubuntu-not-dropping-32-bit-app-support-after-all?fbclid=IwAR2IQGLiqjYHtc_JY00I-mR5948OCVgO22OWqHkZUxuQRGpDACFSJ2y1w1U

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:44 AM Dale Trombley <buzzmandt at gmail.com<mailto:buzzmandt at gmail.com>> wrote:
I was under the impression it was just the build architecture and not the packages. If the packages remain the same steam will be fine right? Someone can give some clarity here?

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 8:20 AM Jonas Timothy <techxgames at outlook.com<mailto:techxgames at outlook.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I'm just wondering that, instead of totally dropping i386, why not just
drop the ones that are unnecessary from the repos, like VLC, Vim, Nano,
Plasma, etc.  Since Ubuntu doesn't even have an i386 based distros
officially, those aren't needed to be there anymore.  That way, you only
had to trim it down to the ones that are necessary for us who need the
legacy stuff without the workarounds, like Wine?

Best of both worlds, right?

Jonas

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