Re: archdetect as a .deb
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:23, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:13:35AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:07, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I agree partially with it however it seems confusing to have
>> dpkg-architecture and archdetect on same system.
>>
>> Maybe we might build a dpkg-subarchitecture package?
>
> I'd really prefer not to have to rename all the calls to archdetect. It
> also doesn't really seem appropriate to call it dpkg-* when the dpkg
> team isn't primarily responsible for maintaining it.
I understand however I think archdetect-deb or archdetect is confusing
for someone not involved on d-i and the reason of it to exist.
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