[LAU] 32 bit end of life plans for Ubuntu flavours - Was: everything stops after 2.1GB

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:51:56 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:48:31 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>Turns out LFS got broken some time in 2013 and noone noticed until
>>now.
>>
>>The fix is here:
>>
>>    https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/e4572180c3445ce1afdc9e36ab8c2163637e0755
>>
>>There was test for this added to the test suite in the commit before
>>that one.
>>
>>Guess I should release a new version soon.  
>
>:)
>
>I guess it doesn't happen that often that somebody needs audio
>files > 2 GiB, let alone that the user at the same time needs to be on
>32bit architecture, while e.g. Ubuntu flavours will drop 32bit support
>soon.

32 bit end of life plans for Ubuntu flavours:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2016-November/008226.html

The link in the above link is broken, it's

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1611/meeting/22714/architecture-discussions/

Regards,
Ralf