On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:07:54 +0100, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * In our opinion the porting team are the right people to be > deciding on the architecture name, in general. > * In our opinion there is no significant technical reason to > interfere with the porting team's decision; on the contrary, we > largely agree with the porting team's choice of `amd64'. > * In our opinion architecture names with underscores in should not > be used because of the existing use of underscore as a separator > in package filenames, etc.; accordingly we advise that these > should be avoided. > * Since names with hyphens in are currently only used when > separating variant kernel-processor combinations, we advise that > this practice should be continued. > * Therefore, insofar as we are granted any authority by the > constitution, we uphold the porting team's choice of `amd64'. > * We request that dpkg should be changed to use `amd64'. Should > the dpkg maintainers decline, we will seek clarification of the > Constitution and consider using our powers in 6.1(1), 6.1(2) or > 6.1(4) to overrule the dpkg maintainers. I support this statement. manoj -- QOTD: "I'd never marry a woman who didn't like pizza... I might play golf with her, but I wouldn't marry her!" Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C