ABI/architecture identification for packages

[Bruce Cran]

On 20 Mar 2012, at 10:20, Konstantin Belousov wrote:

> i386-32 and amd64-64 is weird and confusing.
> 
> IMO, you should go either with x86-{32,64} names, or with i386/amd64,
> not with a mix.

Would we ever want to support something like x32 from Linux (which might be amd64-32)?
http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2011/ocw/sessions/531

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Bruce Cran