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Bug#644990: NEWS.Debian.gz: s/$arch/<triplet>



Hi Sedat,

Sedat Dilek wrote:

> /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian.gz says:
[...]
>              you might try to pass the following option to your
>   compiler:
>
>     -B/usr/lib/$arch -I/usr/include/$arch
>
> Better use commonly used <triplet> when talking about multiarch [1] instead:
>
>     -B/usr/lib/<triplet> -I/usr/include/<triplet>

They seem equally unclear to me.  It might make sense to say something
like "where $arch is the name printed by 'dpkg-architecture
-qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH' --- for example, i386-linux-gnu" or "where
<triplet> is [...]".

Care to write a patch?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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