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Re: Port Name: A Vote



On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:23:40AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:52:25PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > 
> >         [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.
> 
> In other words, alien just has to convert x86_64 to amd64...

Perhaps somebody should forward this to debian-lsb with enough
background information and ask them what the deal is with rpm/lsb/deb
conversion and whether this is a technical issue at all.


Michael

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