On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Attached is a patch to update policy's FHS exception to reflect the current
> consensus among the gcc, eglibc, and dpkg maintainers around the paths to
> use for implementation and the interface packages should use to query these
> paths.
[...]
> From 1f0f1281c53701e2fe549ed9f80a265ebcd9282a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:17:14 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix multiarch FHS exception for i386 in light of recent discussions
>
> The current value of DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE on i386 is unsuitable for
> cross-distro standardization, because it varies according to the default CPU
> target of the toolchain. Discussion with the toolchain and dpkg maintainers
> yielded an alternative solution, a new dpkg-architecture variable
> DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH which is committed to dpkg upstream in commit
> af3153d09aa3ed5597d6d415e5ab7cc3ba972e7c and will be included in the upload
> of dpkg 1.16.0. Update Policy to document this new requirement for
> multiarch.
Seconded.
Cheers,
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