Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:08 PM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 11:11, Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
>>
>> Apt is a mix of C, Perl and C++ code, so I would be reassured if I
>> could have a C++ co-maintainer too. I'm only a C developer so if
>> something goes wrong outside of the C realm that would be helpful.
>
>
> Doesn't matter in what kind of language is written PM. Probably you are not aware that but initially rpm it was written 100% in perl. Nevertheless forget about such change.

It does if things break during an upgrade and I have to patch it.

> DPKG technologically stopped evolving about +15 years ago and today rpm packages relies on many features never implemented in DPKG (not only on area of managing installed/upgraded software but building packages as well).
> In other words: move from rpm to dpkg would be only a lot of effort spent to make happier really small bunch of people increasing only effort for the rest of packagers and package consumers.

My problem is that I want to improve my work experience when it comes
to building debs and evolving packaging.

> What I see which potentially could make a sense would be writing rpm backend to generate deb packages out of spec files.

What an alien concept, if you catch my drift... :p

> That would be beneficial for part of the Debian community the same way as using rpm spec files to build IPS packages on Solaris. Such goal is possible to archive the same way as in case of IPS by writing short wrapper like that on on http://pkgbuild.sf.net/
> Fill free to code such tool .. you have already spec file parser and other bits written so >=80-90% necessary work is already done.
>
> As long as it has nothing to do with Fedora for me EOT.
>
> kloczek
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