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



"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org> writes:

> ok. fair enough.
> BUT: the original proposal and this proposal contain only the duet:

> +          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

> The triplets are listed only in the footnote (which is IMHO confusing).

> But if we want to support the klibc (and in general different libc ABI),
> as it seems nice, this proposal should be more explicit about the use of
> triplet, allow them in the usual places, and policy should set the
> default value.

Yes, I think I agree with all of that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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