On (19/09/06 22:56), Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, James Westby a écrit : > > > > See http://jameswestby.net/mentors/glossary/native.html > > Hi James, > > Quoting your site: > > "A Debian native package is a package that is specific to Debian, and > would not be of interest to say Fedora. Godd examples are dpkg and apt > tools." > > Actually, apt and dpkg are used by at least one project outside the > Debian world, Fink: > > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/search.php?summary=dpkg >
Yes, I realise that they are of interest to some other distros, but I was unsure of the way to put this. How do you think A Debian native package is a program written specifically to Debian, where there is no upstream development. In most of these cases the project will not be packaged by other distributions. Examples of this are dpkg and apt tools. Thanks, James -- James Westby -- GPG Key ID: B577FE13 -- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
