Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie."):
> AIUI, it's for build systems that make decisions based on the
> "canonical" GNU architecture name of the build architecture (or,
> indirectly, the host architecture, since the default host architecture
> is "whatever the build architecture is"). For instance, "if this is
> Linux, do foo, else do bar"

Ah.  I never do that.  I actually test for the presence of the
features I care about.

> or "load plugins that are named
> libmyapp-*-${architecture}.${appropriate extension}". One common reason
> to need it is having a library for which you used libtool.

Glrgh.  (apropos of libtool)

Ian.