Re: DEB vs RPM

[Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:43:06PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote:

> I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat
> Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of
> interest to this group:
> 
> RPMs in, DEBs out
> 
> LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM
> 
> The Linux Standards Board has recently released
> 1.0 of the LSB specification, and have agreed on
> RPM as the standard package format. This has
> naturally caused consternation and friction in the
> Debian community.
> 

This is old news. The LSB standardized on [an earlier version of] RPM
because that is the most used packaging format. However, it should be
noted that this standard is for vendors who wish to build packages to be
installed and run on LSB-compliant distros. It does not dictate that
Debian must natively use the RPM format, only that Debian (if it wants
to be LSB compliant) provide a way to install the RPMs from such a
vendor.

Paul