On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:41:53 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 31.03.2013, 00:13 +0000 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > There is no reason why Debian couldn't continue to be upstream for > > these, but hosting on freedesktop.org might make them more visible to > > other distributions. > > > > [...] > > > Debian packaging specific scripts > > > ================================= > > [...] > > > > These might usefully be further divided into truly Debian-specific and > > dpkg/apt-specific, at least in binary packages. > > What would this additional split give us as advantage? Are there > distributions that use dpkg/apt, but are not Debian derivatives?
What David has said about apt applies to dpkg too. I know of at least Mac OS X, iOS and Solaris distributions not based on Debian, dpkg also has been used on say HP-UX systems. And there's of course non-Debian based GNU/Linux systems like UHU-Linux (AFAIUI). (If people know of others I'd be interested to hear to be able to track dpkg downstreams: <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Downstream>.) Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130401142652.ga20...@gaara.hadrons.org
