Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2014-08-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: Here a slightly modified version of Jonathan patch that mention Architecture:all packages. Please comment or second it. I would like to commit it soon as a start to multiarch documentation in policy. [...] Seconded, although I suggest sorting the

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2014-07-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 05:31:13PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:41:01AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Russ et al, First, thanks Jonathan a lot for providing this patch. While this is not the full story this gives us a better basis to document multiarch.

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2014-07-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:31:33AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined): It is a bug in Debian: The multiarch tuples are not documented/defined in Debian. They are now documented on the wiki, as previously

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2014-03-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:41:01AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Russ et al, First, thanks Jonathan a lot for providing this patch. While this is not the full story this gives us a better basis to document multiarch. - what should the normative content be? It would not be too strange

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-04-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Russ et al, The patch below documents the Architecture field. It doesn't cover architecture tuples yet, but presumably once the description of architectures is in good shape it would not be hard to add a mapping from Debian arches to pathnames to section 9.1.5. Some concerns: - what should

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined): It is a bug in Debian: The multiarch tuples are not documented/defined in Debian. They are now documented on the wiki, as previously noted

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-04-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Clearly I'm not the person to convince others to add multiarch tupples to their specs. I don't see why or why not. But it isn't really about convincing --- I'd be hard pressed to find someone who _doesn't_ want this stuff documented better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-04-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Trimming the cc list down to something somewhat less large. Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: It is a bug in Debian: The multiarch tuples are not documented/defined in Debian. Fine, reassigning to policy. Never say I didn't do anything for you... :)