Bug#437326: boinc-client: please support PS3 platform

[Thibaut VARENE]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 5.10.8-1
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if the ppc boinc client could somehow let the user 
declare 'powerpc64-ps3-gnu-linux' when they're running linux on a PS3 
(assuming they know what they're doing ;)

I'm fairly convinced the way the binary hardcodes its platform at build 
time is broken by design as some machines can actually run code for 
different 'platforms', and that's probably a tendancy that will expand 
in the future, but heh...

HTH

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc2-ge44a8de3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.104            add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates         20070303         Common CA Certificates PEM files
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.14           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-1          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3                7.16.4-2         Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.1-2        GCC support library
ii  libidn11                1.0-0            GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libkrb53                1.6.dfsg.1-6     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8e-5+b1      SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.1-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python                  2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false