dropping 32/31-bit support (aka s390)
Hello everyone,
after long discussions we came to the conclusion that we will drop
32/31-bit support from the upcoming Fedora releases. There are 2 main
reasons - technical and resources. From the technical side more and more
projects either focus on 64-bit s390x or even support only s390x and
with the broad dependency chains it affects large parts of the current
package set in Fedora. From the resource side doing 2 sub-architectures
simply requires twice the number of resources (computing time, disk
space) than doing just one. For human resources the ratio is even
worse, because we need to fix or workaround the limitations of the
32-bit case.
So from now we have dropped s390 sub-arch from Rawhide (aka Fedora 25).
Removing the support from Fedora 24 is also being considered,
especially in the sight of possible 32-bit related issues during the
year of planned life for the release.
With regards,
Dan