On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 31.03.2013, 00:13 +0000 schrieb Ben Hutchings: >> On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 22:49 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > devscripts ships a bunch of scripts to make the life of a Debian Package >> > maintainer easier. Not every script in there is Debian packaging >> > specific. Some of them are used on other non-Debian-based distributions. >> > I was contacted [1] and asked if we could split the Debian packaging >> > specific scripts from the rest. >> > >> > I like to keep only Debian packaging specific scripts in devscripts (see >> > the list below). Where should we put the non Debian packaging specific >> > scripts? Should we create a neutral project or are there other projects >> > in which these scripts fit? >> >> There is no reason why Debian couldn't continue to be upstream for >> these, but hosting on freedesktop.org might make them more visible to >> other distributions. >> >> [...] >> > Debian packaging specific scripts >> > ================================= >> [...] >> >> These might usefully be further divided into truly Debian-specific and >> dpkg/apt-specific, at least in binary packages. > > What would this additional split give us as advantage? Are there > distributions that use dpkg/apt, but are not Debian derivatives?
There is apt-rpm which is a pre-0.6 apt fork used by some distributions as their only supported package manager (the later according to wikipedia). [version 0.6 marked the introduction of apt-secure … on Christmas 2003] I have neither looked at the distributions nor at the scripts, so I have no idea how (un)useful they will be and/or if they even work on apt << 0.6. I am just saying that APT presence is not limited to Debian derivatives … Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAZ6_fAvAc72z==4j=tokann6tvrgs9bmsgczj-hnq5y8xf...@mail.gmail.com
