The future of i486 arch in Th

[Grzesiek]

W dniu 15.12.2014 o 21:01, Jan Rękorajski pisze:
> TL;DR Future of i486 is bleak, it's a strong candidate for removal.
>
> Proposal: remove i486 from Th.
>
> Rationale:
>
> It's increasingly more problematic to get everything built on i486, some
> packages explicitly say "no" to this arch, some require hacks and
> strange workarounds, and other just silently fail in mysterious ways.
> All this makes maintainability cost of i486 very high, and combined
> with the size of userbase, overly high.
>
> Some usage stats from the Sun Nov 16 - Sun Dec 14 period, from
> ftp1.pld-linux.org:
>
> # zgrep x86_64 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz  | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l
> 533
>
> # zgrep i686 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz  | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l
> 730
>
> # zgrep i486 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz  | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l
> 20
>
> # zgrep i486 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz  | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> [exact IPs removed to protect privacy]
>        < 10		4 IPs
>        < 50		4 IPs
>        < 100		4 IPs
>        < 1000		7 IPs
>        > 1000		1 IP
>
> As you can see there are 20 distinct users of i486, out of which
> maybe 5 really use this arch.
>
> Due to higher workload i486 arch requires compared to anything else and
> symbolic userbase, I propose to drop it from Th.
>
> Comments?
>
> PS. we can use former i486 builder for x32 port if there will be takers.
>
I think it's good idea, th2014 can be last snapshot with i486 :)
Some projects this days even start to abandon i686 or mainly focus only 
on x86_64, so I don't see need for i486 in Th.
Are there any users of i486 reading the list?