On Wed, 29 May 2002, Matthias Klose wrote: > Ok, now that we separate woody and unstable, it is time to think about > this. IMO, this is not a gcc only thing. So propably it should be > changed in dpkg/policy first. debian-<cpu>-linux-gnu and > <cpu>-linux-gnu come to mind as an alternative. > > Ben Collins writes: > > Just a heads up on what is about to happen. RMS is complaining that we > > use "<cpu>-linux" instead of "<cpu>-linux-gnu". I know there's a lot of
Great. Now I might have a hell of a time to get dpkg-architecture to do the right thing for DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE... Might as well speak up now, while there is still time. Do please notice we have (at least) *TWO* classes of arch identification strings. What RMS seems to be asking us to do is to change all of them to have '-gnu'. That is *NOT* what I am talking about. IMHO we should just fix the *_GNU_TYPE arch ids in dpkg-architecture (and any other place that uses them) to return arch-vendor-linux-gnu like they are supposed to be in the first place in Linux-based Debian (HINT: it has to return the correct canonic type for that machine-OS combination, as used by GNU config, aka config.sub and config.guess). And leave DEB_HOST_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_TYPE to the current in-use format "arch-kernel", because that is what we use for real in the archive anyway. > > that the whole system is "Linux". For our sake, please change this. Well, if he can ask it like that, so can I. For MY sake as the autotools-dev maintainer, and for the sake of future cross-building setups we might need, please change DEB_*GNU_TYPE to return the proper names, which happen to be postfixed by -gnu. Bugs to this effect have been filled in the BTS for a while, now. Actually, I hope the proper DEB*GNU_TYPE strings are also enough to make RMS happy, because AFAIK we have no technical reason to change DEB_HOST_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_TYPE unless we are actually going to have non-GNU-based Debian systems around... Maybe we should ask the BSD Debian porting project about this. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
