Bug#309498: dpkg: install not allowed due to the difference of the arch_name & system_name of the same platform ; -(

[Jung-hoon Han <junghoon.han@gmail.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.27
Severity: important

I tried compile of java-gnome package libraries to develop java-gnome
based software. as the Sun's JDK related packages were not allowed as of
proprietary license. So did so as debian way(compile & packaging them).
finally I run like follows:

(myMachine):libgtk-java-2.6.2# env LANG=C dpkg -i libgtk-java-2.6.2_2.6.2-1_x86_64.deb

but the following error greeted me! :

dpkg: error processing libgtk-java-2.6.2_2.6.2-1_x86_64.deb (--install):
 package architecture (x86_64) does not match system (amd64)
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  libgtk-java-2.6.2_2.6.2-1_x86_64.deb

because the AMD64 (cpu) architecture was known as x86_64(also in pure64 port Debian/GNU distro).
but the cpu_name(or brandname?) was amd64, dpkg misunderstood they were different platform.

so I can't `dpkg -i (customized x86_64 pkg).deb` until dear maintainer
fix it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.8-my.sun
Locale: LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ko_KR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.27      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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