Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

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On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 16:33, 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...

Wouldn't it be better to take over the existing apt package and switch
it to the real apt? Announce that on the devel list and live happily
ever after. ;)

Regards,
Dominik
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