> For what it's worth, this was a terrible lede for this email. And I couldn't help it, my inner prankster insisted :) > having worked extensively with both package managers, I can sincerely > tell you both are ugly as hell, but rpm is less ugly than dpkg. Yes, I'm not saying that rpm is perfect, but at least I can wrap my head around the tooling, the installation process (in a broad sense) and the tools built on top like yum/dnf or mock. The range of tools from dpkg to sbuild/pdebuild make little sense to me, even after gaining significant experience because of $DAYJOB. > Thankfully, I don't need to go into the reasons why, because this is > not actually about switching to dpkg and its completely terrible > system. Apologies on behalf of my inner prankster :) > If all you wanted was the rest of the tooling in so you can build > Debian packages in Fedora, that's really not a problem. I made an > apt-dpkg package a while ago and worked with APT upstream to make it > build and have the tests work (mostly) on Fedora a couple of years > ago. I imported it into COPR so you can see it: > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/apt-dpkg/build/860086/ > > Instead of renaming the apt package to apt-rpm, we can introduce the > apt-dpkg package that conflicts with apt for your purposes. But I've been bit by "dnf install apt" in the past and I think we should stick to upstream naming. > I wish we could have the rpm backend integrated into the Debian > upstream apt, but someone needs to drive that effort, and no one > really cares anymore. It hasn't happened in the past due to > frustrations with working with Debian upstream, and now it's diverged > so much that they are separate upstreams. My understanding is that the > current upstream developers are interested in an rpm backend, but they > don't want to do any effort to make it happen. > > Also, you can build debs using RPM spec files[1], if you're aware > enough to handle the differences. :) > > [1]: https://github.com/ascherer/debbuild I'm not aware, and that probably wouldn't work for $DAYJOB. Thanks for stepping up as a reviewer! Dridi _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
