Fwd: Proposal: Let's drop i386

[Cody Smith]

i386 packages for a lot of things likely will be there as a lot of town
things (steam, Wine and Crossover to just name a few) rely on 32bit
libraries.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 3:07 PM Stephen Morris <samorris at netspace.net.au>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> >
> > Nils
> >
> >
>
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