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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=b910e58aed06d3fbca0645bd68c2105d1dfa003c commit b910e58aed06d3fbca0645bd68c2105d1dfa003c (HEAD -> master) Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Thu Aug 30 02:38:39 2018 +0200 data: Add missing purpose and column description for tupletable --- data/tupletable | 15 +++++++++++++++ debian/changelog | 1 + 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/data/tupletable b/data/tupletable index b7802bec3..a7a878f5b 100644 --- a/data/tupletable +++ b/data/tupletable @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ # # Bidirectional mapping between a Debian arch tuple and a Debian arch name. # +# Debian arch tuple names are formed as a combination of the Debian system +# name (from the ostable) and the Debian CPU name (from the cputable) after +# applying the variable substitutions. Debian arch names are the result of +# historical naming conventions in Debian, where the predominant system +# architectures have many of their parts in implicit form, by only exposing +# the CPU with the ABI bolted on, where less common architectures have their +# OS part spelled out, and where even less common ones, have their libc +# spelled out. This table maps between the ideal architecture tuple, with +# the current messy reality. +# +# - Column 1 is the Debian arch tuple name, as the normalized form of the +# architecture names, used as the internal representation. +# - Column 2 is the Debian arch name, as the abbreviated form of the +# architecture names, used as the public interface. +# # Supported variables: <cpu> # # <Debian arch tuple> <Debian arch name> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0bb03dd40..f2eef27f2 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ dpkg (1.19.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * Architecture support: - Add support for riscv64 CPU. Closes: #822914 Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> + - Document the purpose and columns in the tupletable file. * Portability: - Add libcompat md5 module to the libcompat-test library, so that we always make sure it builds, even when we use an external implementation. -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
