Cygwin x86 end-of-life

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 13 17:07, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 12/11/2022 16:58, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > Am 12.11.2022 um 17:08 schrieb Jon Turney:
> > > On 11/11/2022 20:02, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > > > Am 11.11.2022 um 20:50 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> > > > > Thomas Wolff writes:
> > > > > > > I plan to pause package uploads this coming Monday (2022-11-14),
> > > > > > > before starting the re-organization of the package repository to
> > > > > > > make this archive.
> > > > > > Although expected for a while, the exact date is now a very short-time
> > > > > > announcement. Can we have a moratorium for a short while?
> > > 
> > > So, if not now, when?
> > Well, first, I think it's not a good idea to change and over-interpret a
> > plan in this way. The announcement for a year or so has been "cygwin 3.4
> > will not support 32 bit anymore". This does not imply that the
> > repository will be closed so any other package would not be allowed
> > anymore to provide updates. What about security updates? Basic
> > functionality?
> 
> Security is a complete red-herring here. We are not good at making timely
> updates for that purpose, generally.  To suggest that x86 will be receiving
> security updates, when we've also said x86 is deprecated, and some
> maintainers aren't updating it at all, makes no sense at all.
> 
> The message needs to be: If you care about security, at the very least,
> don't use x86 Cygwin. This is one of the reasons why I want to archive x86.
> 
> If you think there is some broken "basic functionality" in the current
> package set, please say what it is.  If something critical is discovered
> after the freeze, I am not totally ruling out permitting an exceptional
> upload (although the case for criticality would have to be well made, as,
> again this involves yet more work for me, to benefit a small percentage of
> installations, and one would think that such critical problems would be
> evident currently).

Well said.


Corinna