Previously Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Is it true that Debian approved this "standard"?
Yes. Basically we needed a standard that people could accept and that could be implemented quickly. Obviously rpm was the only solution, and a subset of rpm is used to make sure that that will work on non-rpm based systems as well. There are two ways to handle those packages on Debian systems now: one is using alien, and the other is using Albert's dpkg-rpm patch which makes it possible for dpkg to use those packages directly. On a longer timescale we'll likely move to a new packages format, but that's not for LSB 1. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |