On Sat, 2017-06-03 at 19:17 +0200, Oliver Kurz wrote:
On Friday, 2 June 2017 21:45:06 CEST Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
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.
What holds us back from adding more i586 tests to openQA? We don't expect it to "look different", right? So I guess either capacity for testing or it just has not been done?
We had them - nobody wanted to care for them in time - and if it just doubles the number of red dots *I* have to look after, I am not interested very much in that. Testing the stuff is one part of the equation - fixing potential fallouts another (and note: we do not have testing setup in any of teh stagings - adding that on the staging in plus will put a burden on OBS and openQA - not that it's a problem per se, but needs to be considered) Cheers Dominique