i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

[Marcos Alano]

On Jul 5, 2016 16:40, "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On 2016-07-05 21:31, Marcos Alano wrote:
> > 2016-07-05 12:57 GMT-03:00 Bryan Quigley
> > <bryan.quigley at canonical.com>:
> >> The general ideas are:
> >> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages
> >> from the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*.
> >
> > I think the option A should be put out of discussion or, at least,
> > analyzed very carefully. That's because some applications for i386
> > don't have equivalent for amd64. And other applications depend of
> > some i386 packages present in the repositories. Big examples are
> > Skype and Steam. Steam depends of a series of i386 packages for GUI.
>
> You can use those applications without installing a 32 bit system.
> Dropping the ISO isn't equivalent to dropping all the 32 bit packages.
>
Gunnar,

I know that. My idea is none of the packages should be dropped, for now at
least. What option A says is to drop ISOs and some packages. I think option
B, drop just ISO, is better. Did you understand?

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