On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 7:22 PM Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Ben Cotton <[email protected]> said:
> > == Summary ==
> >
> > Package maintainers are encouraged to actively stop building their
> > packages for i686, especially if supporting this architecture requires
> > significant investment of time or resources, for no benefit. This will
> > not apply to packages which are still depended on by other i686
> > packages, or which get used in a "multilib" context (i.e. for running
> > 32-bit applications on x86_64).
>
> It's unclear what this actually means for packagers. Should
> ExcludeArch: lines be added to spec files?
Ah, yes, thanks for catching that. This was indeed my intention:
Packagers add "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}" to the package in question, if it
is safe to do so (unused / leaf packages only).
I forgot to add that detail to the proposal, will add it now.
As far as I can tell, any approach more sophisticated than that (like
automatically determining the i686 packages we *need*) would require
significantly more work, and probably be more error-prone, introduce
more friction, and make it harder to revert errors.
Fabio
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