Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> 4) Add a dependency on autotools-dev; promoting it all the way from
>>    optional to Essential.

dpkg-dev is Standard, so autotools-dev would only need to be Standard,
wouldn't it?

> (5)  dpkg-architecture are static values, known to all arches that are
> supported.  One can:
>
> 5a) Use config.sub at build time (autotools-dev build dep, if one wants),
>     to get the full GNU arch string
>
> OR
>
> 5b) Just hardcode it like the rest.  I don't mean runtime-add a -gnu, I mean
>     actually using config.sub at the time an arch is added to check what the
>     correct string is, and add that to dpkg.
>

I'd prefer this, if only for the reason that the non-canonical GNU
type is not very useful...

I'm not too attached to the issue, though.

-- 
Robbe


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