Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the
>> same way shlidbs or other substitutions work?
>
> That's exactly what my patch tries to do, but extending the
> recognised normal arches with some aliases that get expaned and
> normalized to normal debian archtitectures, the ones the binary
> tools can and know how to handle.
>
> regards,
> guillem

Except you are also changing the syntax for the control file. That is
all I see as a negative for this.

MfG
        Goswin