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Re: OS-X, Fink, dpkg and a debian developer?



Previously Jules Bean wrote:
> The rumour mill held that Klee was working on dpkg, in his day job at
> Apple, as a package manager for Mac OS X.  As far as I know, nothing
> much like dpkg surfaced in the released versions of OS X...

Legal issues, Apple is worried that the fact that dpkg is GPLed
will affect software they ship in deb form. We never did quite
get that resolved unfortunately.

Wichert.

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