On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:39:45PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think this is somewhat unfortunate, but it is the reality right now. > > Perhaps a good thing for somebody to work on would be reimplementing > > dpkg-architecture in C so that it could be moved to the dpkg binary > > package? > > As I understand, dpkg-architecture query the C compiler which is not > always avalaible.
While that's true, it's partly just because it's architecture-independent code. A compiled version could build that information into the object code without much trouble. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
