Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

[Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net>]

Hello All,

thanks for your answer.

On 27/09/14 23:37, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>>> Standardising on big-endian is a good idea [...]
> 
>> Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian
> 
> That's not what my mail was about.  My point is that the issue with the
> software should be resolved upstream,

in my case, it cannot be resolved upstream,

 rather than implementing yet another
> dodgy hack in dpkg.

Agree.

I finally fix my issue by putting those data in the localstatedir (/var/SOMETHING)

> 
> Which particular encoding upstream chooses should be of no import to
> Debian, as long as it is arch-independent.  Should you have strong
> feelings one way or the other, please feel free to discuss it with
> upstream on the appropriate forum.

Thanks,
Jerome

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> -- Juliusz
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