On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:49:01PM +0100, Peter Kourzanov wrote: > Can anyone please explain why this architecture is named hurd-i386 > rather that i386-hurd? because dpkg-architecture has a line like this: return "$os-$cpu"; older dpkg (of sarge age) was more flexible, so likely the hurd naming decission was not done because of dpkg-architecture, but rather the other way around.