Re: Call for direction in the packaging of windows packages inside of debian and the running under wine.

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Hans-Georg Bork wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 01:45, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>> [...]
>> Now, I would like to install these and run them under wine, and also
>> manage the dependancies between them using dpkg. Do I have to rename
>> the package from eg : gettext to gettext-mingw32? Or use some
>> dpkg-divert mechanism? Currently I am attempting a rename.
>
> in case nobody answered: the naming should follow thr rules for
> deb-packages, where the architecture is shown on the end, e.g.
> gettext_0.10.40-5_win32.deb

just a thought, but should we be qualifying an architecture in addition 
to the win32? ex. gettext_0.10.40-5_win32-i386.deb. I say this because 
you can installed NT 4.0 on mips, alpha, and powerpc in addition to 
i386. So wouldn't that mean that debs would need to be compiled on 
these other architectures for win32? I doubt that anyone would ever do 
this, but shouldn't we account for the possibility?

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