Re: expected baseline changes for forky => proposal no more FPU and 80bits float/double on i386

[email protected] wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 03:43:24PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>> 
>> If i386 ends up only being useful for running such software (which is not yet
>> the case), and that ends up broken, or untestable in any reasonable sense, I
>> would say that argues for dropping i386 entirely.
>>...
>
>wine32 is another major use case, and that might stay around forever.
>
>In practice we will have to revisit the i386 topic when 2038 comes closer,
>Debian 17 in 2033 is the last release where we can currently include i386.

Why do you say that? We *know* that y2038 time-handling will be broken
for the sake of those older proprietary/non-native binaries, but
that's something we'll have to accept (have already accepted?). It's
not fixable.