Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here, > assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following > debian-devel. >
this is true - thank you I became aware of the i386 issue on the geode dev news list (AFAIR) some time ago (may be 6months). > In my opinion the most important message is this: > >> > What's perhaps more significant is that i386 is now getting to the >> > point where it requires such prodding, instead of being an assumed >> > default architecture. That means that the folks who care about it >> > should probably start thinking about building more organization and >> > structure around the work, recruiting people, building a task list, and >> > so forth, instead of just assuming "oh, everything will work on i386, >> > it always has." Volunteering to do that sort of coordination is helpful >> > even if you aren't debugging FTBFS problems. > > > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386 > support you should probably look into contributing. What does it mean exactly? Contribute how and where?
