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From: Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@tweek.dk>
To: wbrana <wbrana@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Drop support for x86-32
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:20:54 +0200
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On Friday 24 August 2012 18:17:14 wbrana wrote:
> On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@tweek.dk> wrote:
> > Ahh..., so the development time saved by not supporting x86-32 in
> > mainline can
> > now be used by backporting new features to the forementioned long term
> > tree?
> 
> new features won't be backported

Ok. Seriously.

Dropping one of the most used architectures for no apparent reason makes no 
sense at all.

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Cheers,
Martin