Hello Jan, > currently I'm playing with the idea to use apt and a local rep as a backend > for automatic software installation - even for pure windows programs. > Has debian/win that far? As far as I knew, the only way to use some of the debian install-tools is to install the cygwin tools. There are dselect, dpkg and some dpkg-* programs. But it is not possible to build debian packages in cygwin by default. A lot of tools are missing (e.g. fakeroot).
Best regards Carsten