Re: Question about abbreviations
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:10:35PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> First, thanks to all of you who worked on the AMD64 port.
>
> In looking at http://amd64.debian.net/docs/package_changes.txt I don't
> understand some of the abbreviations. Could anyone clue me in? In
> particular, PaS and ANAIS.
>
> It might be nice to provide a little guide in that document, or a
> pointer to one (including other terms like FTBFS that I do know).
>
> Oh, http://women.alioth.debian.org/dicts/dward.fi.html has
> ANAIS
>
> Architecture Not Allowed In Source.
>
> To be honest, that still doesn't mean much to me.
All debian source packages contain a line that says which architectures
it can build on. Most will say any/all. A package that has no
architecture specific code (only scripts and data files) will by
architecture any. all means it has architecture specific files, such as
libraries and binaries. all means it should compile an all
architectures in debian. Some packages list specific architectures in
cases where they are known to only work on some architectures or to be
only of use to some architectures. Sometimes they are wrong, and it
would have worked on another architecture but the maintainer hasn't
tried it and doesn't know that so it only lists the ones that are tested
and known to build.
A number of packages have traditionally only been of use to i386, but of
course given that amd64 is an extension of i386, most of those packages
would also make sense for amd64, but some haven't been updated to
indicate that.
> If you could cc me I'd appreciate it, as I'm not on this list.
Len Sorensen
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