[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] [Pkg-virtualbox-commits] r307 - trunk/debian

[Loïc Minier]

 (I'm on the pkg-virtualbox-devel list now)

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:30:26PM +0000, lool at alioth.debian.org wrote:
> > -Architecture: amd64 i386
> > +Architecture: amd64 i386 lpia
> Could anyone please enlighten me why we need/should have this patch in
> Debian? I still do not get it. I do understand that Ubuntu has this
> additional architecture, but where's the advantage of having this in our
> sources other than helping Ubuntu reduzing the patch size?

 You're right that listing "lpia" helps reducing the Ubuntu patch as
 there's currently no Debian buildds for lpia nor any plans to have
 some.  This is just another port living outside of Debian like armeb,
 m32r, ppc64, s390x, sh3, sh3eb, sh4, sh4eb etc.  (type-handling! :-)

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Loïc Minier