Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

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On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 16:33 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> > > > No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt
> > > > in
> > > > Fedora to use sbuild.
> > > 
> > > If you also do the review-request for apt [1] it would be great
> > > dh-python also welcomed :) [2]
> > > The problem is apt is in use by apt-rpm and was not retired yet ,
> > > we
> > > need use another name , my propose is apt-debian .
> > 
> > Just FWIW, the fact that apt-rpm is still in Fedora is against the
> > direct recommendation of the last upstream maintainer (as in, me).
> > 
> > It's been dead for ten years and is totally useless in todays
> > Fedora
> > with rich dependencies and all. Short of somebody stepping up to
> > revive
> > the upstream project, the only responsible action would be retiring
> > it.
> 
> Oh, if upstream says so, I will look up the procedure to ask for a
> package to be retired. That's a first for me...

That is not easy , the current procedure is ask for orphan it , if
maintainer doesn't reply , we need open a un reponsive process for the
maintainer , wait a lot of time , orphan the package , take the package
and retire it . 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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