Bug#688896: Bad idea?

[Colin Alston]

Wouter, is it your stance that people cannot produce a competing tool to
dpkg and be included in Debian? If something can produce .deb files in
accordance with whatever standard applies to them then using dpkg 'behind
the scenes' or not is a non-issue to you or anyone else, and certainly any
work towards making Debian packaging trivial should be welcome.