On Mon, Sep 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <c...@debian.org> writes: > >> ok. fair enough. >> BUT: the original proposal and this proposal contain only the duet: > >> + A package may specify an architecture wildcard. Architecture >> + wildcards are in the format <tt><var>os</var></tt>-any and >> + any-<tt><var>cpu</var></tt>. <footnote>Internally, the package > >> The triplets are listed only in the footnote (which is IMHO confusing). > >> But if we want to support the klibc (and in general different libc >> ABI), as it seems nice, this proposal should be more explicit about >> the use of triplet, allow them in the usual places, and policy should >> set the default value. > > Yes, I think I agree with all of that.
Any suggestions on the wording? I was treating this proposal as merely reserving the namespace, and a later proposal coming forth with actual details of the usage, when multi-arch is further along. So, unless there are objections, I would like to see the wording changes go in now, with clarifications added as and when multi-atch solidifies. manoj -- Backed up the system lately? Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org