Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] ci: switch away from unsupported i386/ubuntu image

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 05:17:05AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 10:30:30AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> 
> > The linux32 job is used to exercise Git on a 32 bit platform. That job
> > uses i386/ubuntu:20.04 though, and that version of Ubuntu is end of life
> > nowadays. Furthermore, Ubuntu 20.04 is the last release that has support
> > for 32 bit, so we cannot upgrade the image to a later version, either.
> > 
> > Switch the job over to use i386/debian instead. Note that starting with
> > Debian 13, support for i386 has been reduced [1]. But Debian still
> > releases 32 bit Docker images for the latest release nowadays, so we
> > will have coverage until at least 2030.
> 
> Makes sense. I did notice this hunk, though:
> 
> > @@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ ubuntu-*|i386/ubuntu-*|debian-*)
> >  		SVN='libsvn-perl subversion'
> >  		LANGUAGES='language-pack-is'
> >  		;;
> > -	i386/ubuntu-*)
> > -		SVN=
> > -		LANGUAGES='language-pack-is'
> > -		;;
> 
> I think we have some tests which use is_IS as an exotic locale, which I
> assume is why we add this dependency. Do we need to do something similar
> for Debian so we don't skip those gettext tests on the 32-bit job, or
> does it just work on Debian?

On Debian we already install "locales-all", so I don't think we have to
do anything there.

Patrick