Re: Who decides arch names?
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:24:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:51:26PM -0300, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > The archive name that has been chosen is "x86-64", which I understand
> > might upset a few people who like the other name.
> >
> > As I've been at DebConf 4, it provided the ideal place to discuss the
> > architecture name in person with many people from the different Debian
> > teams including some of your own porters.
>
> This, I think, is a really poor substitute for discussion on the proper
> mailing lists. I think it is deeply wrong to exclude people's input in
> such a major change simply because they are not at Debconf. To many
> here, this appears as a dictum foisted on us from someone that has not
> been ever charged with determining architecture naming. I believe the
> choice lies with ftpmaster, not a dpkg committer.
I missed the beginning of this thread; I assume it was on -amd64...this
would seem to mean that the apt archtable now in CVS is now inconsistent
with dpkg.
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- mdz
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