Bug#457364: debian-policy: please reserve part of the package namespace for cross compilation

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

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Hi,

following on my earlier informal probe, I'd like to request that package
names matching "*-*-cross" be reserved for cross compilation; the
asterisk stands for any non-empty sequence of characters legal in
package names. Existing packages are considered grandfathered in, as it
is pretty unlikely that we will have an architecture called "fdisk".

Proposed text (to be appended to 5.6.7):

Names ending in "-cross" that have at least two dashes overall are
reserved for cross compilation support, and should not be used directly.

   Simon

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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