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Bug#591857: debian-policy: please clarify which of DEB_{BUILD,HOST}_* is which



On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:28:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:

> It is utterly non-obvious what the BUILD and HOST architectures mean.
[..]
> Browsing the relevant documentation (debian-policy, man dpkg, ...),
> I found no place that disambiguates those.  

Is `man dpkg-architecture' what you are looking for?

> Could you please reword section 4.9 to mention that BUILD is the one you
> host the build on, and HOST the one your build for?  The current version
> just says that HOST is the host machine, and BUILD is the build machine,
> which is just a waste of words.

Might be good to have it more clearly here too.

Cheers,
gregor
 
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