Bug#1144627: debian-policy: Introduce architecture as 2.6 and document baseline

Le lundi 17 août 2026, 13:48:16 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Holger Levsen a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 12:16:37PM +0200, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> > [improvment]
> > - Next step will be to document generally multi arch and partial arch. 
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> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#multi-arch
> has finally been documented...
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> (though I dont blame you for missing this, it was undocumented for >10 years.)

Yes I know but section 2.6 will be more a philosophical introduction to multi-arch something along

Multi‑Arch in Debian is the mechanism that allows a single system to install and use packages from multiple
architectures at the same time. It extends the architecture context so that libraries, headers, and binaries from foreign architectures (like i386 on an amd64 machine) 
can coexist cleanly without file conflict. Individual packages declare their support for this feature, and influences the way dependencies are handled.
Moreinformation could be found in section 5.6.34

thanks holger for documenting.



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