On Fri, Mar 3 2023 at 12:03:12 PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé berrange@redhat.com wrote:
Yes, this whole episode makes me want to kill off i686 builds of everything I maintain, even when its not a leaf package. I only spent time investigating the root cause in gnutls because I saw valgrind warnings and wanted to be sure there wasn't a security flaw lurking that would impact x86_64 too. I have absolutely no interest in spending resources to retrofit 64-bit time_t to a build target that ceased to be relevant to the overwhealming majority of Fedora users many years ago.
If the i686 builds only exist for Steam and Wine, can we say users should switch to containerized distributions instead (e.g. flatpak, snap, or whatever)? Does it really makes sense to build all the various dependencies of these applications in an age where containers exist?