[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Thomas Tanner]

The problem is more complex than converting binary .debs to .rpms using
a hack.
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.
Who benefits more from the merger, Moblin or Maemo?

On 15.02.10 15:35, Christopher Intemann wrote:
> Its not to much an issue to convert deb-packages to rpm, though.
> You might want to have a look at:
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
> I prefer rpm to deb as well.
> Cheers,
>  Chris
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Tanner <tanner at gmx.de
> <mailto:tanner at gmx.de>> wrote:
> 
>     the problem is not the package format itself but
>     they available applications using the package format.
>     Maemo uses .deb and already has lots of applications (plus Jebba's etch
>     build). For Moblin, OTOH, are they any applications?
>     Is there any good reason to switch to .rpm except for breaking
>     compatibility?


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