On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Thomas Tanner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanner@gmx.de">tanner@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The problem is more complex than converting binary .debs to .rpms using<br>
a hack.<br>
The dependencies, the build script and Debian (ucf, debconf) or Maemo<br>
(maemo-optify) specific aspects of the sources would need to be adapted<br>
as well. Backporting to Maemo5 would also be more difficult.<br>
Who benefits more from the merger, Moblin or Maemo?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
</div></blockquote><div>Since MeeGo is about to become the successor of Maemo, I guess there won't be any need to backport anything.</div><div>I guess that rpm is just more advanced than deb. Finally, most third party software applicable to date is either binary or rpm, but not deb. It is probably easier to convince developers to port their linux tools to MeeGo if they're already familiar with the package management. </div>
<div>Cheers,</div><div> Chris</div><div> </div></div>