Fwd: Proposal: Let's drop i386

[Stephen Morris]

On 11/7/18 1:55 pm, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 17/5/18 9:17 am, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>> explain the thinking on the part of the Ubuntu developers as to why
>>> they are discontinuing the i386 images. For us, this would mean that
>>> the 18.04 LTS is the last i386 ISO that we will be publishing.
>>> For now the i386 *packages* in the archive are not going away.
>> Is this article saying that from 18.10 onwards people are not going to
>> be able to run 32 bit applications on their 64 bit images?
> No, if you read the important parts again (see above) you should notice
> that the i386 packages will still be available. The only thing removed
> are the i386 images. The term "images" refers to the install images,
> i.e. you won't get the ISO images to create install media for i386
> machines.

Yes 18.04 is the last i386 iso, but Valorie also says the she believes 
the i386 packages only have a limited lifetime and her closing remark 
says that 18.10 will be without i386. She does say that for the 18.04.1 
etc point releases that the i386 packages will be there but her closing 
remark makes it sound like they are gone with 18.10. If I have 
misinterpreted her closing statement I apologise, but if I have 
misinterpreted it then it needs more clarification around exactly what 
is meant so that it is not open to misinterpretation.

regards,

Steve


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