All Brave Browser for Linux OS packages are up to date. BUT!

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I have noticed the following problem on Linux Mint (Wilma) as well as Mint (Vera).
When I use the command ‘sudo apt update’, I get the following lines at the end of the list:
All packages are up to date.
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’

I can find a few threads in that regard on the forum:
https://community.brave.com/t/brave-browser-install-instructions-for-debian-still-needs-to-be-updated/493919
https://community.brave.com/t/linux-install-bug/485904
https://community.brave.com/t/repository-doesnt-support-the-i386-architecture/522174

So I have learned that I can just add ‘arch=amd64’ to this file: ‘brave-browser-release.list’. That’s easy once you know it.

BUT! If the fix is that simple, why doesn’t Brave take care of it, or at least tell you about it on their download page? It’s been out there for at least a couple of years.
Is this really a save and secure fix? I don’t have the knowledge to judge this.

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Seriously, is there nobody that can answer this?

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Probably Brave team member @fmarier will be interested in “the fix” that you mention - but he might not be available until after this weekend.

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That message is expected and is not an error or anything that needs to be fixed. It simply means that while you have both amd64 and i386 configured on your system, this particular repo only has packages for amd64.

You are right that adding arch=amd64 will silence that notice.

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Thanks for the reassurance, much appreciated.
Would it not be an idea to add a note to the install page in this regard? It made me believe that there was something wrong with the installation. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Brave. It took me quite some time and digging to get to this point. It’s really your reply that reassured me now. And I was very close to uninstalling Brave for good.
Thanks again.

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Did you install using the manual instructions on https://brave.com/linux/? Or did you use the one-line command at the top of that page?

If you use the latter, we updated the script last week to explicitly specify the supported architectures and suppress that annoying message:

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Not sure about the first install, but I did the sudo apt for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint the second time. But that was two weeks ago (16/03).
But I’m glad to hear that the issue was taken care of, and I’m happy with your reassurence that adding arch=amd64 takes care of the message and that the integraty of the installation is not affected by it.