Hi,

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> What do you think about taking this further and supporting expressions like 
> cpuattr:value (or cpuattr-value, or cpuattr=value, or whatever other syntax) 
> in the architecture wildcards (Dpkg::Arch::debarch_is()). In this particular 
> case:
> 
> * endian:little and endian:big
> * bits:32 and bits:64
> 
> As a result, arch symbol tag, [] expressions and Architecture fields in 
> debian/control etc. would gain support for this automatically. In my opinion, 
> this would be more flexible in the long term.

The idea seems nice but I'm not sure it's going to make the implementation
any cleaner. And I don't see really the need for it in other places where
we currently use architecture wildcards.

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