Package: qemu Version: 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 Severity: wishlist It would make scripting and using qemu easier if the command wasn't named "qemu-system-x86_64" but "qemu-system-amd64".
This is a commond controversy in naming the common 64 bit architecture, and is partly explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Industry_naming_conventions In short, it seems that the linux kernel, GCC, Fedora, Arch Linux and OSX refer to it as the qemu package does here. However, most Debian distributions (including Ubuntu), Gentoo, most BSDs, Windows, Solaris and JDK use the "amd64" token for the architecture name. debootstrap, vmdeboostrap and grml-deboostrap, which are useful tools to create qemu images, all expect amd64. could we at least have an alias? thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages qemu depends on: ii qemu-system 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 ii qemu-user 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 ii qemu-utils 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 qemu recommends no packages. Versions of packages qemu suggests: ii qemu-user-static 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 -- no debconf information
