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Re: Wording question for multiarch exception



On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The text of the multiarch exception as committed says that:

>     "Packages may not install files into any triplet path other than the
>     one matching the architecture of that package"

> Was that "may not" (and another subsequent one) supposed to be "must not"?

"may not" in the sense "are not permitted to", so if "must not" is the
preferred wording: yes.

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