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Re: archdetect as a .deb



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?

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