Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take
> > effect on the source package and will get expanded when building
> > the binary package so there's not need to touch major infrastructure
> > to support this, also they respect current syntax. They can be used
> > on Build-Depends and friends and on Architecture fields on specific
> > packages.
> 
> type-handling already does all you ever want.

Well, type-handling syntacticaly complete but it's still a hack.  With this
patch we get dpkg to handle Cpu/System natively instead of feeding it
preprocessed information.

I wrote type-handling with the idea that it'd eventualy be obsoleted by
proper split cpu/system detection in dpkg.  As the type-handling maintainer,
I'll stop endorsing it once superceeden by dpkg.

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