Debian ‘Bullseye’ enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture

Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard. Debian 11, codenamed “Bullseye”, has entered the first freeze stage, meaning no large or disruptive changes, or new package transitions (merging, splitting, renaming or removing) are allowed. The 32-bit i386 architecture is part of the release but may not be in Debian 12, codenamed “Bookworm”.…