Re: Multi-Platform Support

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

(This discussion moved to debian-devel, because I think that's where
it belongs.)

brian white writes ("Multi-Platform Support "):
> Since it seems that Debian will soon start supporting other platforms,
> should we add another level to the directory tree to support this?  I'd
> reccommend putting it between "debian" and "debian-<rev>" since it must
> also encompass the "non-free" tree which sits outside of "debian-<rev>".
> 
> eg:  /debian/i386/debian-1.0  and  /debian/sparc/debian-1.0

For most (nearly all?) packages the source will be the same.

How about having binary directories named after the architecture ?

Ian.