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Re: amd64 <-> x86_64



* Robert Millan (zeratul2@wanadoo.es) wrote:
> Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian
> archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other
> dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more important than
> the architecture name dpkg uses internaly to identify debian ports.

DEB_HOST_ARCH = "amd64"
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU = "x86_64"
etc.

Users and developers can understand it.  It's hardly a 'dual naming',
and if you're going to be concerned about it being one go look at all of
the *other* 'dual naming's we have in Debian already.

	Stephen

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