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Subject: Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha () ubuntu ! com>
Date: 2016-06-29 7:01:37
Message-ID: CAJ=zHHpySdBC2uj9D6ZtSvocrM5i26NFy6maEg0R2+7qh2QxHA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com> wrote:
> I propose that 16.04 LTS should be the last release with i386 support.
> That way we don't leave anyone with a choice of (a) keep running
> known-insecure 17.10 in 2018 or (b) figure out how to do a downgrade
> back to 16.04 LTS.
+1 Dropping the i386 install disk is much better immediately after an
LTS instead of immediately before.
> I'm not sure how we acheive this specific goal but I think we shouldn't
> encourage i386 (or armhf?) users off of 16.04 LTS.
We can tell update-manager and do-release-upgrade to not allow
upgrading i386 with an explanation of why. That should send a big
signal that it is no longer officially supported.
Jeremy
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