Juergen Menden writes ("Bug#2500: (no subject)"):
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> this patch is needed to make the debian.rules file
> arch-independend. at least it should not change anything
> on intel's, but it makes the emacs compile (and run ;-)
> on m68k-linux.
dpkg 1.1.1elf and later has a `--print-architecture' option that
prints i386 on 386/486/Pentium &c.
Is this any help here ? Its output is what should appear in the
Architecture control file field.
Ian.
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