[arch-dev-public] Shadowing i686, round 1

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

On 2017-01-09 04:26, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 06/01/17 07:08, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
>> Friendly reminder what I'm going to push through if nobody opposes.
> 
> Can we have a detailed discussion what EOL for i686 means? I have seen a
> couple of proposals being:
> 
> 1) We just kill i686 (as in stop distributing packages), or
> 2) Reduce i686 to a secondary architecture.
> 
> I want to see secondary architectures happen, so this would be a good
> start in that direction.  We start by advertising for a team that is
> responsible for building and fixing i686 packages.  At a certain point,
> the only change to our tooling is that developers upload x86_64 only,
> and the other team plays catchup (which should lead to autobuilding...)
> 
> Allan
> 

I will write a news post draft proposing the latter this week.

Bartłomiej