On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:46:17 +0100, Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> said: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#254598: Name of the Debian > x86-64/AMD64 port]"): >> Pretty much all of these lead me to conclude that we should resolve >> along the following lines: > I was slightly unclear about whether that was a formal proposal, and > in any case didn't call for a vote. But people seem to like it so I > hereby propose the following resolution, and call for a vote: > The Technical Committee have considered the question of the name of > the Debian x86-64/AMD64 port. We resolve that: > * In our opinion the porting team are the right people to be > deciding on the architecture name, in general. > * In our opinion there is no significant technical reason to > interfere with the porting team's decision; on the contrary, we > largely agree with the porting team's choice of `amd64'. > * In our opinion architecture names with underscores in should not > be used because of the existing use of underscore as a separator > in package filenames, etc.; accordingly we advise that these > should be avoided. > * Since names with hyphens in are currently only used when > separating variant kernel-processor combinations, we advise that > this practice should be continued. > * Therefore, insofar as we are granted any authority by the > constitution, we uphold the porting team's choice of `amd64'. > * We request that dpkg should be changed to use `amd64'. Should > the dpkg maintainers decline, we will seek clarification of the > Constitution and consider using our powers in 6.1(1), 6.1(2) or > 6.1(4) to overrule the dpkg maintainers. I vote yes. manoj -- The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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