(debian-policy.info)Architecture specification strings

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11.1 Architecture specification strings
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If a program needs to specify an `architecture specification string' in
some place, it should select one of the strings provided by
‘dpkg-architecture -L’.  The strings are in the format ‘os-arch’, though
the OS part is sometimes elided, as when the OS is Linux.

Note that we don’t want to use ‘arch-debian-linux’ to apply to the rule
‘architecture-vendor-os’ since this would make our programs incompatible
with other Linux distributions.  We also don’t use something like
‘arch-unknown-linux’, since the ‘unknown’ does not look very good.

Architecture wildcards