Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#254598: Name of the Debian x86-64/AMD64 port]
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:17:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:07:54 +0100, Ian Jackson
> <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> said:
>
> > * In our opinion the porting team are the right people to be
> > deciding on the architecture name, in general.
>
> > * In our opinion there is no significant technical reason to
> > interfere with the porting team's decision; on the contrary, we
> > largely agree with the porting team's choice of `amd64'.
>
> > * In our opinion architecture names with underscores in should not
> > be used because of the existing use of underscore as a separator
> > in package filenames, etc.; accordingly we advise that these
> > should be avoided.
>
> > * Since names with hyphens in are currently only used when
> > separating variant kernel-processor combinations, we advise that
> > this practice should be continued.
>
> > * Therefore, insofar as we are granted any authority by the
> > constitution, we uphold the porting team's choice of `amd64'.
>
> > * We request that dpkg should be changed to use `amd64'. Should
> > the dpkg maintainers decline, we will seek clarification of the
> > Constitution and consider using our powers in 6.1(1), 6.1(2) or
> > 6.1(4) to overrule the dpkg maintainers.
>
> I support this statement.
As do I. [I had intended to say this earlier, but looking over the
archives, I don't see that I'e done so.]
Thanks,
--
Raul
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