Sorry for the delay, I've been very busy last week. >> A while ago I participated in a discussion here about the debian >> package format. Quite recently I tried to spark up a discussion about >> package formats on the LSB list but did not get any replies > >Can you point to the message (preferably via its Message-Id field) so we >can see what it was saying? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00978.html or b28b6cf70907310348x5d233eebgf7433398fd7f3...@mail.gmail.com
>> hopefully this discussion will be more welcome here. Constructive >> crticism is welcome, so feel free to critique. > >To be honest, I'm not sure what response you expect to get. There's not >much substantive to respond to in your message: yes, it would be nice to >have a common package format, but I don't see what in particular you're >proposing be done about that. > >Such a discussion would IMO best be done at the freedesktop.org >distribution collaboration forum <distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org>, >to gather input from the various distributions. Perhaps you could post a >more specific proposal there, and post here (and likely points in other >distribution-specific discussion forums) inviting interested parties to >join that thread. Thanks for the hint. I've posted the specification on the distributions mailing list. The spec can be found here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2009-November/000350.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
