Bug#457364: debian-policy: please reserve part of the package namespace for cross compilation

[Hector Oron <zumbi@debian.org>]

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 02:14:37PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
 
> A lot has changed since this proposal, and I am uninformed, hence
> curious: does it still make sense to reserve this namespace (maybe to
> avoid causing trouble for existing users of dpkg-cross)?

  Now that we are getting into multiarch days, and we might gain
cross architecture dependencies I believe reserving such namespace is
not needed. Also note that dpkg-cross'd packages are not to be released
and we do not need to polute the official archive with them.

  Using path provided by dpkg-cross is arriving to its end, either by
using multiarch paths in Debian world or setting up a sysroot path in
upstream world (which is not compatible with current dpkg-cross).

  Note that the intention has always been to merge dpkg-cross usefulness
into proper dpkg and throw away useless dpkg-cross bits, so it really
needs to die.

Best regards,
  -- Héctor Orón