Bug#240896: not pending anymore
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:52:22PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
| * Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote:
| > I'm reverting the existing patch in CVS due to the controversy on
| > -amd64/-devel about the arch name. A new patch is welcome when the
| > issue is resolved.
|
| Right, we're working it out, but I havn't heard any real dissenters from
| amd64 yet. Those who don't like it should speak up please. If no one
| does then I guess we're all in agreement...
My gripe with it is the pimping of AMD. It's a different class than
i386, since there you only have one letter and not the whole name, and
historical errors should not prevent us from doing the right thing
today. (Else, all linux ports should be renamed to linux-$ARCH, which I
don't think they should (pre-multiarch, at least. ;))
On the other hand, I don't have a better name to come up with at the
moment, and bastardisations like x86.64 (for the closer visual look of
x86_64) are kind-of silly.
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