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Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ci: use Debian instead of deprecated i386/ubuntu

From
Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 28, 2025, 19:17 UTC
Message-ID
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
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>
> Ubuntu has ended support for 32 bit platforms and is not maintaining any
> release anymore that has 32 bit support. But we still use i386/ubuntu in
> our CI pipeline to test for compatibility with 32 bit systems, even
> though that specific image does not receive updates anymore.
>
> Besides being end-of-life, this image also doesn't have all packages
> available to it anymore. This creates problems with a subsequent patch,
> where we're about to pull in cbindgen for generating Rust to C bindings.
>
> Drop the Ubuntu image and use Debian instead, which continues to
> maintain its 32 bit port.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> ---
>  .github/workflows/main.yml | 3 +--
>  .gitlab-ci.yml             | 2 +-
>  ci/install-dependencies.sh | 6 +++---
>  ci/lib.sh                  | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
> index cc54824c388..0b16970cd7e 100644
> --- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
> +++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
> @@ -395,9 +395,8 @@ jobs:
>            cc: gcc
>          - jobname: linux-musl-meson
>            image: alpine:latest
> -        # Supported until 2025-04-02.
>          - jobname: linux32
> -          image: i386/ubuntu:focal
> +          image: i386/debian:latest
>          # A RHEL 8 compatible distro.  Supported until 2029-05-31.
>          - jobname: almalinux-8
>            image: almalinux:8
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> index f61ec2b6989..31d5e5a3e0d 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ test:linux:
>        - jobname: linux-musl-meson
>          image: alpine:latest
>        - jobname: linux32
> -        image: i386/ubuntu:20.04
> +        image: i386/debian:latest
>        # A RHEL 8 compatible distro.  Supported until 2029-05-31.
>        - jobname: almalinux-8
>          image: almalinux:8
> diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
> index 50628ee2dd6..b7b3cf35edf 100755
> --- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
> +++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ fedora-*|almalinux-*)
>         dnf -yq update >/dev/null &&
>         dnf -yq install shadow-utils sudo make pkg-config gcc findutils diffutils perl python3 gawk gettext zlib-devel expat-devel openssl-devel curl-devel pcre2-devel $MESON_DEPS cargo >/dev/null
>         ;;
> -ubuntu-*|i386/ubuntu-*|debian-*)
> +ubuntu-*|i386/debian-*|debian-*)
>         # Required so that apt doesn't wait for user input on certain packages.
>         export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
>
> @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ ubuntu-*|i386/ubuntu-*|debian-*)
>                 SVN='libsvn-perl subversion'
>                 LANGUAGES='language-pack-is'
>                 ;;
> -       i386/ubuntu-*)
> +       i386/debian-*)
>                 SVN=
> -               LANGUAGES='language-pack-is'
> +               LANGUAGES='locales-all'
>                 ;;
>         *)
>                 SVN='libsvn-perl subversion'
> diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
> index a5c4eb40bea..fdfde612339 100755
> --- a/ci/lib.sh
> +++ b/ci/lib.sh
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ then
>                 CI_OS_NAME=osx
>                 JOBS=$(nproc)
>                 ;;
> -       *,almalinux:*|*,alpine:*|*,debian:*|*,fedora:*|*,ubuntu:*|*,i386/ubuntu:*)
> +       *,almalinux:*|*,alpine:*|*,debian:*|*,fedora:*|*,ubuntu:*|*,i386/debian:*)
>                 CI_OS_NAME=linux
>                 JOBS=$(nproc)
>                 ;;
>
> --
> 2.51.1.930.gacf6e81ea2.dirty
>

Makes sense to me, but I wonder if we should test with other 32 bit linux distros. This isn't a critique or a suggestion, I'm just wondering out loud.

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