On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 19:20 +0000, Christopher Myers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but -- how long is the 32-bit version of Tumbleweed going to be supported with new patches? I'm just curious because Leap and SLE are only 64-bit.
I hold it like this with i586: as long as I can without alienating the entire distro. One thing needs to be said clearly here though: the test coverage is only on x86_64 - on i586 we just have a couple minimal tests left in openQA. So in the end, we know it builds and is 'generally installable' . Any test beyond that is not covered (and, as we just have seen with Thunderbird: a fix that worked for x86_64 did not cover i586). Of course we will try to fix even that problem. In plus, it depends what upstreams offer to us. IIRC, Firefox actually announced to no longer support building for i586 with one of the next versions - now, 'not supporting' can mean it still works for now, but if it breaks, bugs are unlikely to be fixed by upstream. In this case it is up to the openSUSE community to make it happen. Cheers, Dominique