Bug#407461: boinc-client sends bogus platform '' on amd64

[Thibaut VARENE]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 5.4.11-4
Severity: normal

I'm running boinc-client on my amd64 machine, and here's what happens
when I start it and try to attach to a project that does support
natively the x86_64 platform:

2007-01-18 16:56:28 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
2007-01-18 16:56:28 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3
libidn/0.6.5
2007-01-18 16:56:28 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
2007-01-18 16:56:28 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2
CPU 6300  @ 1.86GHz

[snip]

2007-01-18 16:59:21 [http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/] Scheduler
request
succeeded
2007-01-18 16:59:21 [boincsimap] Message from server: platform '' not found

I tried with various projects, they never get the 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
platform string that they should get from the client, and thus do not
download client app or work units.

HTH

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser  3.101                           Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf  1.5.11                          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-8                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 common error description library
ii  libcurl3 7.15.5-1                        Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1  1:4.1.1-21                      GCC support library
ii  libidn11 0.6.5-1                         GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-6                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0. 0.9.8c-4                        SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc+ 4.1.1-21                        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base 3.1-22                          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python   2.4.4-2                         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13                      compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

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