The list mainly includes libraries used in 32-bit applications still in use, as well as dependencies associated with these libraries.

These include, for example, Wine and the Steam client, through which the theme originally came to the table. Of the more than 30 thousand packages, about 1700 were selected, for which the formation of those 32-bit packages for the i386 architecture will continue.ДЄs comments that for Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa there will only be a limited number of packages 32-bit to maintain compatibility. He summarized the results of a discussion with the community of a list of libraries for the i386 architecture, which is planned to be included to ensure compatibility with 32-bit applications in Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa'. That is why recently, Steve Langasek presented plans for future handling of 32 packages bits in Ubuntu. Maintaining a package base for i386 requires large resources for development and quality control, which are not justified due to the small user base (the number of i386 systems is estimated at 1% of the total number of installed systems). The reason for the interruption of i386 architecture support is the inability to maintain packages at the level of other architectures compatible with Ubuntu, for example, due to the inaccessibility of the latest developments in security and protection against fundamental vulnerabilities such as Specter for 32-bit systems. In July of this year, we were talking here on the blog about one of the news that had generated discontent on the part of some with Ubuntu, since that Canonical had announced than for the current version of your system (Ubuntu 19.10) 32-bit architecture would no longer be supported.Д¬anonical was intended to completely stop package creation for i386 architecture (including abandoning the formation of multiarch libraries needed to run 32-bit applications in a 64-bit environment), but he reconsidered his decision after examining the comments made by the developers of Wine and especially Steam.ДЄs a compromise, it was decided to guarantee the delivery of a separate set 32-bit packages with the necessary libraries to continue the operation of obsolete programs that remain only in 32-bit form or require 32-bit libraries.

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