On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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> However, as a long-time and experienced Debian Developer, I can say that
> what dpkg does is not some trivial thing. It's certainly possible to
> build a debian package by bypassing all that; but it just feels wrong.
> The right way is n
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> However, that is not what fpm is. Instead, fpm is a tool to convert
> packages from one format to another. That, itself, is not necessarily a
> bad idea either; case in point, we do have a package in Debian, "alien",
> which provides simi
Wouter, is it your stance that people cannot produce a competing tool to
dpkg and be included in Debian? If something can produce .deb files in
accordance with whatever standard applies to them then using dpkg 'behind
the scenes' or not is a non-issue to you or anyone else, and certainly any
work t
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