On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:49:47AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 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.
I think the original plan we worked out together on this list a while ago works well enough for now (at least until Wichert comes to reworking the way arches are handled by dpkg). > 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. Actually, RMS is concerned about the _GNU_TYPEs (and _GNU_SYSTEM of course), nothing else. Note that the Debian arch names don't even have "linux" in them, they are i386 and hurd-i386, which is bad enough :) Anyway, this can be rectified when arch handling is reworked in dpkg. For dpkg-architecture, fixing the GNU names is good enough. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
