On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 21:43 +0100, hikaru.debian@web.de wrote: > Dear Ben, > > > You'll need to stick with jessie as it is not planned to support such > > old processors in stretch. > > Could you elaborate on that please? > I found the anouncement for the Stretch Alpha 5 Installer [1], but apart from > that there seems to be no (semi)official statement addressing the drop of i586 > support for Stretch (yet). < > Being the author of #783082 and #783293 I fully understand why Debian would > want to get rid of i586, but some more detailed reference, that shows how this > decision was made, would be nice. > Is there a discussion on a Debian mailing list you could link to or something > similar? It is linked from the announcement. Ben. > Thanks in advance! > > > fyi: Due to your quote above I opened a thread in the unofficial German > Debianforum at [2]. > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/01/msg00001.html > [2] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=159100 -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
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