Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Except you are also changing the syntax for the control file. That is
> all I see as a negative for this.
Well to fix this in a proper way we have to do _some_ changes, mine
is the solution with less impact and minimal changes, only a little
portion of the archive will change. Robert's implies changing the
whole archive to the new syntax.
regards,
guillem
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