On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 12:56:38PM -0400, Gizmo Chicken wrote:
> > I believe deleting i386 and armhf before 18.10 is the politest thing to do
> Provided that i386 and armhf won't be supported in 20.04 LTS (which
> seems to be the case), I fully agree that such support should be
> removed *before* 18.10. Those needing such support should be
> encouraged to remain on the current LTS, and not lured to 18.10 with a
> false hope of continued support.
> Removing support before 18.10 would also be a good way to draw out
> early feedback. If enough backlash (and technically feasible to do
> so), perhaps i386 and armhf could be (reluctantly) added back for one
> final LTS, namely 20.04 LTS (and maybe tested in 19.10). But
> hopefully that wouldn't be needed.
Rebootstrapping an architecture is a non-trivial amount of work. It is
exceedingly unlikely that, having taken the decision to drop the
architecture, we would then decide to reintroduce it.
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