Ubuntu Reverses Decision, Says It Will Continue To Support 32-bit Packages

'Canonical has issued a statement on Ubuntu's 32-bit future, saying it
will continue to build and maintain a 32-bit archive going forward.
From a report:

Of course, there was some negativity surrounding the decision -- as is
common with everything in the world today. In particular, developers
of WINE were upset, since their Windows compatibility layer depends on
32-bit, apparently. In a statement, Canonical said: "Thanks to the
huge amount of feedback this weekend from gamers, Ubuntu Studio, and
the WINE community, we will change our plan and build selected 32-bit
i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS. We will put in place a
community process to determine which 32-bit packages are needed to
support legacy software, and can add to that list post-release if we
miss something that is needed. Community discussions can sometimes
take unexpected turns, and this is one of those. The question of
support for 32-bit x86 has been raised and seriously discussed in
Ubuntu developer and community forums since 2014. That's how we make
decisions."'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/06/24/1826241

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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