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11.1.1 Architecture wildcards
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A package may specify an architecture wildcard.  Architecture wildcards
are in the format ‘any’ (which matches every architecture), ‘os’-any, or
any-‘cpu’.  (1)

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   (1) Internally, the package system normalizes the GNU triplets and
the Debian arches into Debian arch triplets (which are kind of inverted
GNU triplets), with the first component of the triplet representing the
libc and ABI in use, and then does matching against those triplets.
However, such triplets are an internal implementation detail that should
not be used by packages directly.  The libc and ABI portion is handled
internally by the package system based on the os and cpu.