On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:08 PM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 11:11, Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > [..] >> >> Apt is a mix of C, Perl and C++ code, so I would be reassured if I >> could have a C++ co-maintainer too. I'm only a C developer so if >> something goes wrong outside of the C realm that would be helpful. > > > Doesn't matter in what kind of language is written PM. Probably you are not > aware that but initially rpm it was written 100% in perl. Nevertheless forget > about such change.
It does if things break during an upgrade and I have to patch it. > DPKG technologically stopped evolving about +15 years ago and today rpm > packages relies on many features never implemented in DPKG (not only on area > of managing installed/upgraded software but building packages as well). > In other words: move from rpm to dpkg would be only a lot of effort spent to > make happier really small bunch of people increasing only effort for the rest > of packagers and package consumers. My problem is that I want to improve my work experience when it comes to building debs and evolving packaging. > What I see which potentially could make a sense would be writing rpm backend > to generate deb packages out of spec files. What an alien concept, if you catch my drift... :p > That would be beneficial for part of the Debian community the same way as > using rpm spec files to build IPS packages on Solaris. Such goal is possible > to archive the same way as in case of IPS by writing short wrapper like that > on on http://pkgbuild.sf.net/ > Fill free to code such tool .. you have already spec file parser and other > bits written so >=80-90% necessary work is already done. > > As long as it has nothing to do with Fedora for me EOT. > > kloczek > -- > Tomasz Kłoczko | LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/FXPWxH > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
