Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> +
> +        <p>
> +          A package may specify an architecture wildcard. Architecture
> +          wildcards are in the format <tt><var>os</var></tt>-any and
> +          any-<tt><var>cpu</var></tt>. <footnote>Internally, the package
> +          system normalizes the GNU triplets and the Debian
> +          arches into Debian arch triplets (which are kind of inverted GNU
> +          triplets). So when matching two Debian arch triplets, whenever an
> +          <var>any</var> is found it matches with anything on the other side,
> +          like in:
> +          <example>
> +  gnu-linux-i386	== gnu-linux-any
> +  gnu-kfreebsd-amd64	== any-any-amd64
> +          </example>
> +          And for example <var>any</var> is normalized to <var>any-any-any</var>.
> +        </footnote>
> +        </p>

Do we really need to use the triplets? Do you see some possible cases where we
must really specify the first part?

Does the new dpkg support also the triplets?

Personally I would move it in a footnote, as "future direction".


Now we miss only the "all [linux-any]" like constructs.

ciao
	cate