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Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture



On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:14 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:

> On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> > 
> > My concern is the same as that of the Project Leader, that the existing
> > powerpc port is called "powerpc" -- and that we should at least try to
> > be consistent with already chosen architecture names.
> > 
> So you would add 'powerpc64' support to dpkg if the port changes its 
> package name accordingly?
> 
Yes, that'd be applied to the 1.13 branch straight away.

> However, I still do not understand why you and/or the Project Leader 
> want to override the decision of the porters and choose a different name
> than the LSB specifies. I am not saying that Debian should always follow 
> the LSB blindly, but I cannot see a good reason for deviating from the 
> LSB in this case.
> 
Because it's a 64-bit version of an already supported architecture.
Having "ppc" and "ppc64" would be fine, as would having "powerpc" and
"powerpc64".  Having "powerpc" and "ppc64" is inconsistent.

Scott
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