Reserving part of the package namespace
Hi,
I'd like to ask for the current naming scheme for packages related to
cross compilation (the suffix listing the target architecture name and
the string "cross", e.g. "-arm-cross" for ARM targets) to be explicitly
codified in policy.
While it is unlikely that packages stumble on that namespace by
accident, it would be nice to build a hook into apt that can
automatically retrieve and convert packages required for cross
compilation, and for such a thing to exist, there should be a bit of
formal support for the assumption that packages named thus have some
sort of connection to cross compilation and are coordinated with
debian-embedded in some way.
It is likely that there will be another proposal to deal with things
like this post-lenny, but this change will allow for some
cross-compilation support in lenny without being too intrusive.
TL;DR: "-*-cross" suffix on package names is proposed to be magic.
Simon
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