[Popcon-developers] [PATCH] Report Alpha subarchitectures

[falk@debian.org (Falk Hueffner)]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Falk Hueffner]
>> But if there's really firm consensus that this information
>> absolutely has to come from d-i, I might look into that.
>
> I'm not quite sure how you came up with the idea that the information
> has to come from d-i.  I sure did not say it, nor did I mean it.
>
> My point is that the subarch information should not come from the
> popularity-contest package.  I do not really care if it comes from
> d-i, dpkg, gcc, dmidecode, lspci, or whatever.  It would be nice if it
> came from a package already installed on all systems, to avoid
> introducing a new dependency, though.

But as I said, there is no such package, and creating one that does
exactly what is needed for popcon seems pointless.

-- 
	Falk