Hi,
I'd like to ask for the current naming scheme for packages related to
cross compilation (the suffix listing the target architecture name and
the string "cross", e.g. "-arm-cross" for ARM targets) to be explicitly
codified in policy.
While it is unlikely that packages stumble on that namespace by
accident, it would be nice to build a hook into apt that can
automatically retrieve and convert packages required for cross
compilation, and for such a thing to exist, there should be a bit of
formal support for the assumption that packages named thus have some
sort of connection to cross compilation and are coordinated with
debian-embedded in some way.
It is likely that there will be another proposal to deal with things
like this post-lenny, but this change will allow for some
cross-compilation support in lenny without being too intrusive.
TL;DR: "-*-cross" suffix on package names is proposed to be magic.
Simon
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