[maemo-developers] RPM Vs. Deb (Was Re: MeeGo)

[From: Jean-Christian de Rivaz]

Fathi Boudra a écrit :
> That's pure speculation but it's the only rationale I found so far
> about the rpm choice.
> 
> Quoting from a lwn.net comment:
> 
> ---
> reference: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2068665492.html:
> Hohndel was quoted as saying that the move to Fedora was largely a
> "technical decision based on the desire to adopt RPM (Red Hat Package
> Manager) for package management" instead of Ubuntu's Debian DEB
> extension. RPM offers the advantage of containing license information,
> Hohndel was said to have noted, thereby enabling developers to create
> collections of software by license type or exclude software by license
> type.
> ---
> reference: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nj...
> "One of the examples cited by Dirk was the ability for RPMs to easily
> identify the license of packages and being able to build an environment
> including or excluding a particular license type."
> ---

This is pointless. Debian package can contain license information if
you want to. Please read the chapter "5.7 User-defined fields":
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html

Adding just a "XBS-License:" line in each package control file do not
justify to lose 5 years of work.

Regards,

Jean-Christian de Rivaz