At 10:00 AM 4/9/2008 +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: >On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:41:32AM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > >The way to achieve a database for Python would be to provide tools for > > >conversion of eggs to rpms and debs, > > > Such tools already exist, although the conversion takes place from > > source distributions rather than egg distributions. > >What is the status of the deb backend? The only one I know is unofficial >maintained by Andrew Straw, but my information my be lagging behind.
I was under the impression that there were 2 .deb tools, neither one "official" in any sense, any more than 'bdist_rpm' is really "official" for RPM-based systems. >By the way, if these tools work well, they are priceless! I haven't had need to use any of them, so I don't really know. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
