Ubuntu 19.10 will be 64 bit only

[Jens Reyer]

On 22.06.19 13:58, Tim Schumacher wrote:
> Creating some kind of PPA (doesn't have to necessarily be an "official"
> PPA on launchpad though, since they require packages to be source-built)
> is a good idea, it may be possible as well to just fetch the libs from
> Debian and putting them into the PPA.

My first thought also was PPA.  However, AIUI, it will not be possible
to have an i386 PPA on Ubuntu/Canonical infrastructure, since they
remove support for it completely.  Also I'm quite sure that uploading
binary-i386-packages to e.g. an amd64-PPA can not work.

i386 and amd64 multiarch libraries usually have to be completely in
sync.  So you can't "just" install the i386 libraries from Debian.

To provide 32-bit Wine as regular package I can't imagine any solution
which doesn't involve maintaining a large part of the Ubuntu archive for
i386, and providing the infrastructure to build and distribute it.

In Debian you have this done by very few, but dedicated people for the
unofficial "ports" for e.g. m68k, or hurd and kfreebsd.  Given that
Debian still supports i386 this would be much easier for Ubuntu.

Greets
jre