> Simply put, "no". Debian and Ubuntu ".deb" packages too often don't > follow the File System Hierarchy, they may have different layouts and > package naming capitalization schemes for matching Fedora packagers > like "PyYAML", they may have overlapping pre-set uids and mismatched > group name conventions, etc., etc, and the grub intigration for new > kernels is likely to be a nightmare. It would be a full-time job for > several competent engineers to do that kind of package impedance > matching.
I'm not interested in debating Debian and derivatives packaging guidelines, but I generally prefer how Fedora does things (except notably, modularity). > Just..... no.aot abd deb inside a "podman" baswed container? Maybe? > But it seems not worth the pain. The whole point of this change was to allow working with DPKG tooling without leaving the comfort zone of Fedora, without forcing a VM or container indirection. And trust me on this one, I do not inflict Debian packaging on myself by choice so I'm really keen on not adding any needless step, to the point where before submitting this change I had my own homebrew apt package. As a bonus point, this change also retired apt-rpm which had been dead and unmaintained for a decade, and according to the upstream developer himself it had unfixed security issues. So apt-rpm needed to go anyway, and there was no reason not to replace it with regular apt (apt-rpm would otherwise conflict with apt). And by the way, even though I initiated this change I later lost my ability to implement it, but it's been done since f32 thanks to Neal Gompa and Sérgio Basto. I hope it clarifies what was actually implemented. Dridi _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
