Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
| Ok, the relevant passage for the "AMD64 Packaging" LSB Spec:
|
| "All packages must specify an architecture of x86_64. An LSB runtime
| environment must accept an architecture of x86_64 even if the native
| architecture is different."
I think the whole "LSB says x86_64" is irrelevant from Debian's
perspective. Just take a look at the LSB "Packaging" spec --
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/book/Packaging/Packaging.html#SWINSTALL
Applications shall either be packaged in the RPM packaging
format as defined in this specification, or supply an
installer which is LSB conforming (for example, calls LSB
commands and utilities). [1]
Distributions shall provide a mechanism for installing
applications in this packaging format with some restrictions
listed below. [2]
[...]
[2] The distribution itself may use a different packaging
format for its own packages, and of course it may use any
available mechanism for installing the LSB-conformant
packages.
So I think that if you take the AMD64 Packaging spec in context, it's
saying that we have to be able to install /RPMs/ with an arch of
x86_64, not that the Debian architecture has to be x86_64.
Cameron.
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