Ubuntu 19.10 will be 64 bit only

[Sveinar Søpler]

----- On Jun 22, 2019, at 1:12 PM, dimesio dimesio at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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.
> 
Since most Launchpad PPA´s provide the needed orig.tar.xz files, along with .dsc
and -debian.tar.xz, it is not impossible to re-build those packages on the OBS 
for use as a dependency. It is not there the work lies i guess.

Dunno if *buntu maintaners plan on creating any wine-release on Launchpad at all,
but if they do, it is not really impossible to maintain OBS as a kind of "backup"
of Launchpad to use for -devel and -staging. 

Will be interesting to see how this is solved on Launchpad, cos dependencies is
a hornets nest on top of a anthill, and once main repo´s start dropping deps it´s
a huge undertaking to unwind. 

Sveinar

>> 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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> Rosanne DiMesio
> dimesio at earthlink.net