On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:28:31PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've always thought that eliding linux in the architecture was pretty > confusing for people, which tend to consider it any-<arch> instead of > linux-<arch>. And I added the alias with the intent to be able to > possibly fix that in the future, but never bothered pushing for it > given that such change is probably too contentious, probably as > confusing or more during the transition period, and because at the time > there was only hurd as the other non-linux architecture > > Now that we have few non-linux architectures on the archive it might > be time to consider discussing it?
I was planning on bringing this up last year, but didn't have time to persue it. I would certainly agree that migrating to linux-<arch> is beneficial and it certainly gets my vote. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
