Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): > You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > > Should I provide a command to do this automatically ? > > > > dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture perhaps. > > Sure, why not. It would result in more consistency, and that's > a Good Thing (TM) This will be in 1.3.11. Can anyone think of a reasonable thing to say in the policy manual about when and how to use it ? Ian.