Heads-up: Switching internal dpkg arch representation to quadruplets

Hi! Currently dpkg represents architectures internally as Debian triplets, which have the inverse order as GNU triplets. One problem is that the first element of the triplet encodes the ABI and the libc used, so we have no way to wildcard one or the other, and this is becoming more relevant with n

Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

Guillem Jover writes: > Yeah the Xs were really annoying. On the AIX and Mac OS X systems I > tested on, AFAIR they produced garbage when rendering, but I can recheck > to be sure. I think I might have also tested on a system that used man > (w/o Unicode support) instead of man-db, but I'd need t

Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

Guillem Jover writes: > In deb-changelog(5) there is currently this: > ,--- > .nf > \fIpackage\fP (\fIversion\fP) \fIdistributions\fP; \fImetadata\fP > [optional blank line(s), stripped] > * \fIchange-details\fP > \fImore-change-details\fP > [blank line(s), included in