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Subject:    Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories
From:       Simon Farnsworth <simon () farnz ! org ! uk>
Date:       2019-09-12 14:45:58
Message-ID: CAFE9171-CBFC-4031-936E-8B4827ABD015 () farnz ! org ! uk
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> On 11 Sep 2019, at 21:03, vvs vvs <vvs009@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's understandable. But this is beating of a dead horse.
> 
> But what matters now is that by doing some small investigation i686 users can still \
> get support for their bugs which are common for both platforms. This doesn't \
> require any formalities like SIG or commitments which they can't make and it is \
> always available for anyone who can afford to spend some additional time if such \
> bug affects them bad enough. 

That's literally all the x86 SIG was asked to do - get some small investigation work \
going so that between all of them, packages that had i686-unique bugs could be fixed \
in a timely fashion. They couldn't get enough interest going to even keep the kernel \
building for i686 as well as x86-64.

Everything else, including commitments from individuals and the mailing list, was \
secondary to that goal, and was only looked at because the x86 SIG was failing to \
help resolve FTBFS bugs that were blocking S390, x86-64 and other arches.

> I think this could work better than previous attempts at keeping x86 SIG alive. Of \
> course nothing prevents some volunteers to do above work on behalf of other users \
> or create mirrors for distribution of i686 packages. But this is not critical to \
> keep things running.

The problem is that you're discussing what the x86 SIG was formed to do - the only \
reason to form a SIG to begin with was so that there was a bit of Fedora \
infrastructure (mailing lists etc) devoted to connecting packagers with i686-only \
problems to people who were willing to try and solve them.

If no-one's willing to actually do anything to fix i686 FTBFS issues, then Fedora \
will drop i686 support eventually. That's all that's happening here - no-one wants to \
do anything to keep i686 alive as an architecture for Fedora, so Fedora is dropping \
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