Re: archdetect as a .deb
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:30:34PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 13:30, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > The Ubuntu ARM folks have asked me to look into providing archdetect as
> > a .deb, so that they can use it in some situations outside d-i as a
> > single common way to name the current subarchitecture. This seems
> > reasonable enough to me, and since libdebian-installer is already
> > available as a .deb it wouldn't be very difficult to arrange.
> >
> > The main issue is naming: since .udebs and .debs share a common
> > namespace, it can't just be archdetect.deb unless the .udeb is renamed
> > (which seems likely to be awkward?). Does anyone have an idea what it
> > should be called? "archdetect-deb" offends my sense of aesthetics ...
>
> Shouldn't it be part of dpkg?
I can't say I really want dpkg to depend on libdebian-installer. It
seems inappropriate. I also explicitly want the d-i team to carry on
maintaining that subarchitecture mapping in libdebian-installer, as it's
quite tightly bound into our codebase.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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