Bug#471870: lintian: Please add additional Debian architectures
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:05:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de> writes:
> > what about typos like alhpa instead of alpha?
>
> We'd still catch completely unknown architectures.
>
> Currently, lintian has three different classifications of architectures:
> known architectures that are officially supported by the project,
> semi-official architectures supported by dpkg but not part of the main
> archive, and completely unknown ones. It issues a W: tag for the last and
> an I: tag for the second.
>
> My proposal is to eliminate the I: tag and only have "architectures
> supported by dpkg" and "completely unknown architectures." I don't think
> the I: tag is ever helpful.
Sounds good and thanks for the explanation :)
Carsten
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