I was wondering whether there is a group of people out there that just go around debianizing programs. Like bleeding edge programs.
I seems to me, since RedHat is probably the most popular, or at least most famous, distribution, only RPMs are made of many packages. Sure, you can use alien to debianize a package, but does alien put the files into places that follow the debian file-system policy, or does it just take the file locations straight from the RPM? The problem with the latter, is that after a while, you get a lot of cruft in the file system, and the file system becomes a bit unorganized, especially with config files and such. So it would probably be better to make .debs from the source, or tarballs. What goes into the making of .deb packages? And are there ramifications for makeing .debs out off commercial packages, say for example Quake3Arena (which is what really brought this up.), and Metrowerks Codewarrior. Anyways, any ideas would be appreciated. Marshal
