On 25 January 2017 at 08:54, Bartłomiej Piotrowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Due to the decreasing popularity of i686 among the developers and the > community, we have decided to phase out the support of this architecture. > > The decision means that February ISO will be the last that allows to > install 32 bit Arch Linux. The next 9 months are deprecation period, > during which i686 will be still receiving upgraded packages. Starting > from November 2017, packaging and repository tools will no longer > require that from maintainers, effectively making i686 unsupported. > > However, as there is still some interest in keeping i686 alive, we would > like to encourage the community to make it happen with our guidance. The > [archlinux-ports][1] mailing list and Freenode IRC channel will be used > for further coordination. > > [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-ports
I kept up to date a bit with what people around the net are thinking about this draft and it appears there is some confusion as to whether [multilib] will be affected by this. I propose adding the following sentence: "The [multilib] repositories will not be affected by this change."
