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Bug#291939: Split System/Cpu for architecture handling



On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 08:25 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > This is the continuation of bug #118910.  Since you retitled it as
> > "[ARCH] clean up archtable", I considered you'd prefer me to file a separate
> > bug for this.  Feel free to retitle/merge if you think otherwise.
> >
> >   Analogously, the "Architecture" field is split.  Some examples:
> >
> >     Package: grub
> >     Cpu: i386
> >     System: any
> >
> >     Package: modutils
> >     Cpu: any
> >     System: linux
> 
> Beware that unless you get this into sarge it can't be used before
> etch is released, which means somewhere around 2008-2010.
> 
Actually, I don't think that would necessarily be true in this case.  We
have to skip a release with features if they mean that the dpkg and APT
in the previous stable release cannot process packages in the new
release.

Robert's patch only currently affects dpkg-dev, which doesn't have this
restriction.

Scott
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