On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:26:55PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I was under the impression that due to rpm brokeness Debian and > thereafter dpkg came into being.
This is entirely wrong. The first entry in dpkg's changelog was in 1994, and rpm's first release was in 1997. Please spend at least a little time doing research before asking questions of a widely-read mailing list; establishing those dates took less than a minute (tail of dpkg's debian/changelog, and looking at RPM's Wikipedia page). > Could or does somebody remember what discussions took place when dpkg > was being put up as an ideal package manager. It still is, in case of > breakage or something goes wrong and the other tools can't fix. dpkg was written as part of developing Debian and was an integral part of that development. It wasn't a matter of looking around for an existing system to use. If you want to look at the history of discussions, you're welcome to look at Debian's mailing list archives; most of the early stuff will be on debian-devel (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
