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

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:57 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
>> 
>> The decision to use the name 'ppc64' is based on the LSB and it is 
>> consistent with the decision of all other distributions I know of.
>> 
>But it isn't consistent with Debian's previous decision on the PowerPC
>port.  In particular, the LSB mandates "ppc32" for what we call
>"powerpc".

And why precisely do we need to be consistent with an architecture
name chosen in the past? Names seem to be chosen arbitrarily; if we
can agree with other distros and the LSB on what we call a new 64-bit
PowerPC, that seems like a no-brainer to me...

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