On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:17:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 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.
As do I. [I had intended to say this earlier, but looking over the archives, I don't see that I'e done so.] Thanks, -- Raul
