Hi: Debian Policy 11.1 states: "11.1 Architecture specification strings
If a program needs to specify an architecture specification string in some place, it should select one of the strings provided by dpkg-architecture -L. The strings are in the format os-arch, though the OS part is sometimes elided, as when the OS is Linux.[73] Note that we don't want to use arch-debian-linux to apply to the rule architecture-vendor-os since this would make our programs incompatible with other Linux distributions. We also don't use something like arch-unknown-linux, since the unknown does not look very good." For the purposes of Debian Control Files, I took that to mean: dpkg-architecture -L results that have no 'os' prefix should be considered 'linux' I'm a bit unclear here on whether things in an Architecture: field should be picked from the linux ones, or if they could be from any of them. Is it possible to have Architecture: openbsd-s390 in debian/control? I'm guessing there could be a case where APT is ported to other operating systems, though in practice so far all I have seen is architectures with no prefix "s390" which I take to mean "linux-s390" Is it safe to assume s390 == linux-s390, in all cases? I ask because the terminology sounds ambiguous -- the OS part is "sometimes" elided, as when the OS is Linux. But that doesn't necessarily mean that a missing OS part means the OS is assumed to be Linux. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
