Re: freetype2-32: Update DESCR

[zerous <zerous@nocebo.space>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:42:30PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Naveen Narayanan <zerous@nocebo.space> writes:
> 
> > -This package is intended to crosscompile freetype2 for i386.
> > +Note: This package is intended to crosscompile freetype2 for i386
> 
> Can you explain the theory of -32 packages vs using crossbuilding
> support?  (Also, 32 is a word length and there are a large number of CPU
> types that have that length, e.g. sparc, vax, ppc, arm).)
> 
> (As an aside, not important, I don't understand why you are adding
> "Note:".  DESCR is supposed to describe the package, and people reading
> it are expected to already be expecting such a description.

Hi,

I intended the postfix "-32" to mean that these packages were
associated with wine32 (32 bit) and to imply crosscompiling for i386
(32 bit). At least that was my rationale. On retrospect, I think it
would have been better if I had used "compat32-" as a prefix for such
packages. I apologize if it caused any confusion. Do you think
compat32- prefix would be better?

And regarding "Note:", I shall not use it again.

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zer