On Sunday 08 December 2002 13:29, Aaron Isotton wrote: > Hi, > > (sorry for the overlong subject). > > I originally sent this to debian-doc but I got no answers, so I > thought I'd post it here too. > > I'm interested in writing the "How Software Producers can distribute > their products directly in .deb format" manual, as listed on > http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals. I thought to write the > following, more or less: >
In the end it makes very little sense for a3rd party to provide debs. The LSB requires rpm support only. Personally I would be happy if they released a rpm for compliance and a tarball (binary or source as they wish) for everyone else.