Hi,

On Sun, 31 May 2009, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> It may be necessary for one reason or another to determine in debian/rules
> whether an architecture is 64bit or not.
> 
> There isn't really a good way to do that today, and dpkg-architecture seems
> like the natural place to add this.
> 
> So, I think a new variable like DEB_ARCH_64BIT would be a nice and handy
> thing to have.

More likely DEB_ARCH_BITS=64 so that it covers the future too. However
this information doesn't exist currently.

If we want to support that, we should add a new column to
/usr/share/dpkg/cputable.

Guillem, what do you think about it?

Cheers,
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