Bug#268377: (fwd) Re: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases (Was: Split System/Cpu for architecture handling)
Drat, reply to list was not what I had to do. Sorry about this.
----- Forwarded message from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> -----
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Guillem Jover wrote:
> The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take
[...]
> I've a added as well a new option (-n normalize) to dpkg-architecture
> so Maintainers can use it to get the alias expansions. Try it to see
> the results.
The (only) problem I can see with this is that, should we add or remove a
new arch to an alias, you have to recompile everything to be completely in
sync.
This can be fixed by keeping the alias somewhere, instead of just expanding
it everywhere.
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Henrique Holschuh
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