On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bill Allombert wrote: > >It would be very helpful if this position were explicitly stated in Debian > >Policy, especially if people have been "fighting against this for years." > > Debian developer reference 5.3.1 states that > > 2. Don't set architecture to a value other than ``all'' or ``any'' > unless you really mean it. In too many cases, maintainers don't > follow the instructions in the Debian Policy Manual > (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/). Setting your > architecture to ``i386'' is usually incorrect.
That's good to know, except what are the instructions of the Debian Policy Manual on the subject? I couldn't find any.
