Discussion about dropping qemu builds on i686

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https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qemu/pull-request/83

Previous discussion:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/C2U5RBADZB2ZUMR74PLNV73C3AIPSLWH/#C2U5RBADZB2ZUMR74PLNV73C3AIPSLWH

qemu currently builds binaries for i686, see eg:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2694902

However this is becoming increasingly difficult to support.  Currently
the i686 tests don't pass.  Disabling the tests is possible, but then
we'd be shipping untested binaries.  Fixing the tests is also
possible, but a bunch of work (if you are interested in doing that
work, please join the PR above and submit fixes.)

Dropping it will mean changes in several other packages.  See both the
PR and the previous discussion link for a potential list of affected
packages.

Rich.

PS #1 this is _not_ about dropping qemu-i386 or qemu-system-i386, that
is, 32-bit x86 binary or full VM emulation running on other host
arches such as x86_64.

PS #2 apparently qemu running on i686 was able to emulate x86_64...
probably very very slowly.  This capability has been dropped upstream,
in case anyone was doing that crazy thing.

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