Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:34 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > >> However, the translator itself is not trivial, as it might need >> it's own shell parser or something alike to be reliable enough. > > Couldn't you just run makepkg (with some hooks) and dpkg-deb to > convert the results to Debian packages?
How should this handle dependencies (probably named differently in Debian) or maintainer scripts? Tools like `alien` to convert RPM and Debian packages have similar limitations and I don't remember them working that well. Ansgar
