Thursday, 27 February 2025

Do you still need trusty/xenial/bionic pure i386 autopkgtests?

Hello there!

Recently, something™ broke in the https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com infrastructure
around bionic i386. After the initial time spent to pin-point the issue, I
spend a little bit of time trying to repair that, but it seems I'm missing some
bits of the puzzle to correctly boot a pure 32 bits system in OpenStack. That's
certainly something that can be fixed if I invest enough time in that, but
taking a step back brought the following question: who still needs to run i386
tests on trusty, xenial, and bionic?
From what I've found, i386 does not seems to be covered by any ESM or
pro support, and for all releases since focal, the tests are done in a
foreign-architecture dpkg setup on amd64.

If nobody complains in the coming week, I'll officially deprecate the
infrastructure's ability to run pure i386 kernels, and then anyone is free to
have a drink in celebration šŸ».

Skia

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