[arch-dev-public] [draft] The end of i686 support

Sébastien Luttringer seblu at seblu.net
Mon Nov 6 15:57:32 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 09:30 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:25:49 +1000
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > In all my time here, I can remember one i686 bug that did not also
> > affect x86_64.  That suggests a common infrastructure is warranted.
> > 
> > A
> 
> I haven't been here nearly as long and remember far, far more than
> one.
> 
> Scimmia

Ceph is a living example; since two major versions, it doesn't build on
i686.
This put aside, I'm in favor to offer hosting to ports architectures
which need it.
Cheers,

Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer

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