Ubuntu 19.10 will be 64 bit only

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:34:47 +0430
Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Provided the Ubuntu kernels will continue to support 32-bit
> executables, and provided there's interest in the Ubuntu community to
> continue running Wine, I imagine it should be possible for a bunch of
> people in the Ubuntu community to get together and provide 32-bit
> builds of the required packages as a PPA or something. Although hardly
> ideal, I don't think there's a reason such an approach wouldn't work.

I can't use PPAs to satisfy build dependencies on the OBS. Packages have to either be in the Ubuntu  standard, update, or universe repositories, or on the OBS itself. The latter is what we're doing for FAudio. That works fine, other than the whining from Ubuntu users about the tremendous difficulty of copying and pasting the command to add another repository. So if Ubuntu users do decide to go the PPA route, they should also plan on building their own Wine packages. 

> The much easier option of course would be for the affected users to
> switch to a distribution that cares about Wine, Debian perhaps being
> the most obvious choice.
> 
Other than the part about Debian being the obvious choice, that's basically what our forum sticky for CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7 users has been saying for 5 years.



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