Le Fri, May 20, 2016 at 07:34:59AM +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > I am always flabestered by the popularity of fpm to build Debian > packages (and by the increasing popularity of pleaserun by the same > author on the same concepts). It provides a way to easily build a Debian > package from a directory but produces somewhat crippled/incomplete > packages and is no help to us since it's completely outside of any of > our tools. It also handles RPM (and now other package formats), but I > don't think this would explain its popularity alone.
For software using CMake, there are also CPackDeb and CPackRPM. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CPackDeb.html Were I an upstream developer, I would definitely be interested by tools like this that leverage the build system to build installation packages for various platforms. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan