Thanks to all those who responded (I posted the original question). Bruce Perens writes: [...] > Several. We support pre-dependencies, which make upgrades a good deal > more foolproof, as well as regular dependencies. Debian packages are > easier to build (especially now with "debmake", it's practically > automatic). We have automatic conversion of Red Hat and Slackware > packages to Debian packages.
This answers my question. Thanks. [...] > I think the Debian packaging back-end (dpkg) is _finished_ software. > It could have some small changes made to it, but it does what we need > it to do. The _front_end_ (dselect) is the part that should be > compared to other distributions, and the part that needs improvement. A la GLINT, I suppose, though I've never seen it. I think it would be fun to work on something like this. Maybe Debian could just use GLINT and massage the backend (and add stuff for the additional Debian package features). > > Hmmm - isn't it true that there's work at the moment towards giving > > Debian the ability to use RedHat packages? > > It works now. Download the latest "debmake" package and run "man alien". I need to do this. Time time time where does it go. Thanks again for the discussion. -- Kevin K. Lewis | My opinions may be unreasonable [EMAIL PROTECTED] | but such is the voice of inspiration -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
