On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Thomas Tanner wrote: > The problem is more complex than converting binary .debs to .rpms using > a hack.
alien is not a hack. It is packaged and maintained by Joey Hess who wrote debhelper. Few people know more about debian's build system than Joey. > The dependencies, the build script and Debian (ucf, debconf) or Maemo > (maemo-optify) specific aspects of the sources would need to be adapted > as well. Backporting to Maemo5 would also be more difficult. Backporting is always going to be difficult. > Who benefits more from the merger, Moblin or Maemo? Both benefit if we get the kind of scale that is imagined. We create a single platform to power many devices across the device spectrum. This is a battle for the operating system that works everywhere BUT the desktop, they already concede that Windows owns that and no one wants to fight there. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
