On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > Attached is a patch to update policy's FHS exception to reflect the current > consensus among the gcc, eglibc, and dpkg maintainers around the paths to > use for implementation and the interface packages should use to query these > paths. [...] > From 1f0f1281c53701e2fe549ed9f80a265ebcd9282a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@canonical.com> > Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:17:14 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] Fix multiarch FHS exception for i386 in light of recent > discussions > > The current value of DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE on i386 is unsuitable for > cross-distro standardization, because it varies according to the default CPU > target of the toolchain. Discussion with the toolchain and dpkg maintainers > yielded an alternative solution, a new dpkg-architecture variable > DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH which is committed to dpkg upstream in commit > af3153d09aa3ed5597d6d415e5ab7cc3ba972e7c and will be included in the upload > of dpkg 1.16.0. Update Policy to document this new requirement for > multiarch.
Seconded. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français)
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