Notice: 32-bit x86 is at risk of being dropped from Fedora

[Randy Barlow]

Greetings!

FESCo met today to discuss an i686 build failure[0] in which it seems that the x86 SIG did
not have a timely response, which resulted in wider-than-expected problems in the
distribution due to causing build failures in other dependent packages. FESCo hereby
notifies the x86 SIG that future events like this one may result in dropping i686 support
from Fedora.

The kernel team has proposed splitting out the kernel-headers package to alleviate similar
problems in the future.

[0] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1922

[Jeff Backus]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs(a)fedoraproject.org
>  wrote: 
>  Greetings!
>
>  FESCo met today to discuss an i686 build failure[0] in which it seems that
>  the x86 SIG did not have a timely response, which resulted in
>  wider-than-expected problems in the distribution due to causing build
>  failures in other dependent packages. FESCo hereby notifies the x86 SIG
>  that future events like this one may result in dropping i686 support from
>  Fedora.
>
>  The kernel team has proposed splitting out the kernel-headers package to
>  alleviate similar problems in the future.
>
>  [0] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1922
>  
Hi Randy,

Thanks for letting us know. Yes, I think FESCo's response and plan of
action are perfectly reasonable, and splitting out the headers is a good
compromise. Thanks!

Cheers,
jeff

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