Re: basic question re. Debian packages

[Daniel Ringwalt]

If you build an RPM, you can use "alien" to convert it to a Debian or
Slackware package. However, this may not always be perfect if a
package dependency is named something different in a different distro
using RPM, but I've never had any problems.

On Aug 3, 11:25 am, Markus Hitter <m...@jump-ing.de> wrote:
> Am 03.08.2007 um 16:30 schrieb Marko Riedel:
>
> > an acquaintance of mine would like to have some of my programs
> > available
> > as Debian packages.
>
> There are Ubuntu packages already:
> <http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?
> keywords=gnustep&searchon=names&subword=1&version=gutsy&release=all>
>
> Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, it might be a good idea to have
> equal packages in both distributions. See <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
> UbuntuForDebianDevelopers>
>
> Please note the "Debian changelog" at the bottom of packages' pages
> wich contains addresses of people who did packaging before.
>
> Markus
>
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