Re: Red Hat Package Manager debianized

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Christoph,

A package converter sounds like a good selling point for Debian.

We can't always convert packages and redistribute them due to
their commercial terms - for example Accellerated X. However, we can
distribute a patch file that can be applied to the commercial package
after it has been extracted and before it is repackaged that makes a
"perfect" Debian package out of it. If you can make your package conversion
tool take patch input as an option and perform the rest of the process
automaticaly, the end user might be able to employ it that way.

We can also keep these patch files in our sources archive so that we can
track new versions of foreign packages as they are released.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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