Re: Architecture Field

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:28:31PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 
> I've always thought that eliding linux in the architecture was pretty
> confusing for people, which tend to consider it any-<arch> instead of
> linux-<arch>. And I added the alias with the intent to be able to
> possibly fix that in the future, but never bothered pushing for it
> given that such change is probably too contentious, probably as
> confusing or more during the transition period, and because at the time
> there was only hurd as the other non-linux architecture
> 
> Now that we have few non-linux architectures on the archive it might
> be time to consider discussing it?

I was planning on bringing this up last year, but didn't have time
to persue it.  I would certainly agree that migrating to linux-<arch>
is beneficial and it certainly gets my vote.


Regards,
Roger

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