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Re: compaq compilers



On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, James D. Freels wrote:

> Is there more to converting the compaq .rpm files into .deb than just
> running alien?  I noticed the newer alien in the unstable tree
> converted the new files to .deb without error while the stable-tree
> alien had errors.

Well, yes and no.  Technically, alien does do a nice job, but I add the
nice things that debian does well: dependencies, conflicts (I have the two
versions of cpml -ev5 and -ev6 conflicting, etc).  Other than that, I
change the section name to compaq (having "alien" show up there is kinda
tacky).

C


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