Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

[<rjk@greenend.org.uk>]

Marcus Brinkmann writes:

> We all are blinded by dpkg. It works, yes. How long? The current
> sources don't even build properly out of the box. Problems are
> cropping up without people knowing how to fix them (see the bug
> list). Even very simple patches and changes need months to get into
> yet another non-maintainer release.

While I couldn't get the published source to build, IWJ's source tree
builds for me.  Perhaps you should encourage him to make it more
widely available?

ttfn/rjk