[Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

[Derrick Hudson]

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:07:05AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:57 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
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| > On 05-Mar-17 00:10, Scott James Remnant wrote:
| > > No, I would just prefer consistency.  You've deliberately chosen an
| > > architecture name that's jarringly different from your 32-bit variant;
| > > that's a rather bold thing to do, and I think you need to justify tha=
t.
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| > The decision to use the name 'ppc64' is based on the LSB and it is=20
| > consistent with the decision of all other distributions I know of.
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| But it isn't consistent with Debian's previous decision on the PowerPC
| port.  In particular, the LSB mandates "ppc32" for what we call
| "powerpc".

AFAIK the LSB was created long after debian already had a 'powerpc'
port.  All this means is that the name 'powerpc' wasn't a deviation
=66rom a standard because there was no standard when that decision was
made.  Now there is a standard, and so -now- that should be taken into
consideration.

Really, both 'ppc64' and 'powerpc64' are reasonable names.  'ppc64' has
the advantage of being shorter, and easier, to type.  Is it really
worth the effort to change it now, and to be "different" just for the
sake of being different?  I don't think so, and I think people are
wasting more time than it's worth arguing over this choice.

-D

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