Hi,
I'm doing some builds (mostly PHP) for PowerPC 64bit little endian. I've started to use the Ubuntu port and got confused why they chose to swap the le (little endian) to el. In all the relevant tool chain tools it is called ppc64le, and this is what other distributions (fedora / opensuse) have adopted for this port.
I was happy to see Wookey's announcement about the port going to be official, but before this happens I think it's our last chance to fix this minor but important issue. I'm trying to avoid yet another different name for a Debian port (e.g. amd64, although there were reasons).
Yes, the rename will take effort, but this change will probably save a lot of confusion in the future (and also code to gap the difference).
Example:
# uname -a
Linux sys-67646 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:50:31 UTC 2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
# dpkg --print-architecture
ppc64el
Kaplan
p.s
I've talked with Wookey and Breno privately, and now want to raise the issue publicly.