Hi Graham, On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2019, at 12:03, Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Greetings packagers, > > > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > > have from day one. > > DPKG solved the packaging problem, but was particularly inelegant doing so, > primary because the goal at the time was to move from nothing to something. > RPM was able to learn from the first attempt, and is far simpler and more > robust.
I need to apologize again for my bad joke. I don't really like the DPKG/apt ecosystem, and wasn't implying that Fedora as a distribution should switch to DPKG (RPM is one of the reasons I'm using Fedora). Rather that we have an "apt" package that currently isn't upstream "apt" but dead upstream "apt-rpm" instead. > > A bit of background here: I build both RPMs and DEBs for $DAYJOB and > > until recently my workflow was quite painful because I needed extra steps > > between git checkout and git push that involves a VM, because what we > > ship as apt is in reality apt-rpm. > > If I’m understanding you correctly are you trying to being Debian packages on > a Fedora system? Yes, thanks to $EMPLOYER letting me use Fedora for $DAYJOB, I can use my favorite OS both personally and for work. And I do Debian packaging for my $DAYJOB. > I’m not seeing how a need like this justifies reengineering an entire > software ecosystem. Indeed, I only wish to replace one package by another, and add a couple more to improve the DPKG experience on Fedora. The fact that I don't need to switch systems to target either Debian/Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS is a great bonus. I'm trying to submit RPMs that I have been using locally to build Debs on Fedora \o/ Dridi _______________________________________________ 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
