Bug#688896: Bad idea?

[Colin Alston <colin.alston@gmail.com>]

Wouter, is it your stance that people cannot produce a competing tool to dpkg and be included in Debian? If something can produce .deb files in accordance with whatever standard applies to them then using dpkg 'behind the scenes' or not is a non-issue to you or anyone else, and certainly any work towards making Debian packaging trivial should be welcome.