Dropping 32-bit ISOs from Xubuntu 19.04 and Forward

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 3 23:11:06 UTC 2018


On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 03:07:09PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 13:23, Sean Davis <smd.seandavis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > This is an announcement that Xubuntu will no longer be shipping a 32-bit installation medium starting with Xubuntu 19.04. This decision comes after a team vote [1] that resulted in 6 of 10 members voting to remove the option, with no other votes posted.
> >
> > Please let me know what additional steps are needed to discontinue building this ISO.
> >
> 
> I presume you will continue to support upgrades. Is that correct?
> 
> If and when you'd want to stop that, a clamp can be applied in
> release-upgrader to prevent offering upgrades for example.

This clamp as you put it has already been added to
ubuntu-release-upgrader[1] for upgrades to Ubuntu 18.10 and should apply
for all derivatives.

[1]
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-release-upgrader/trunk/revision/3170

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Brian Murray



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