On 19 Feb 2019, at 12:03, Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings packagers, > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > have from day one. DPKG solved the packaging problem, but was particularly inelegant doing so, primary because the goal at the time was to move from nothing to something. RPM was able to learn from the first attempt, and is far simpler and more robust. > A bit of background here: I build both RPMs and DEBs for $DAYJOB and > until recently my workflow was quite painful because I needed extra steps > between git checkout and git push that involves a VM, because what we > ship as apt is in reality apt-rpm. If I’m understanding you correctly are you trying to being Debian packages on a Fedora system? I’m not seeing how a need like this justifies reengineering an entire software ecosystem. Regards, Graham — _______________________________________________ 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
