Who maintains RPM? [LWN.net]

Who maintains RPM?

Posted Aug 23, 2006 17:46 UTC (Wed) by nevyn (guest, #33129)
In reply to: Who maintains RPM? by rsidd
Parent article: Who maintains RPM?

This is a slightly ridiculous situation.

Not at all, if the software is open source debian can just package it themself. If it's closed then Red Hat and Novell still have almost all the market, and debian/ubuntu have alien support.

If Red Hat and SuSE could figure out a way to switch to deb and apt, and abandon RPM altogether, the linux world would be a better place.

Why would they screw their customers over like that, the deb format is not any better than the rpm format (has Suggests/Enhances doesn't have file deps). The dpkg tool is much worse than rpm, IMNSHO, and the higher level tools (yum, apt-get, smart, open-carpet, etc.) are all roughly equal technically. Also (from a long time Red Hat/Fedora users POV) the base system in debian is very different, and one of the main reasons I don't use ubuntu.

Ubuntu didn't base off of debian because it was technically better, they did it because it was bigger ... plus IMO because there were more unemployed people who know debian well than know Red Hat well, which you might take as a flame but I can't help that...

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Who maintains RPM?

Posted Aug 24, 2006 2:12 UTC (Thu) by robla (guest, #424) [Link] (2 responses)

Ummm...please. Ubuntu is based on Debian because Mark Shuttleworth is a long time Debian guy, and he writes the checks. I'm sure at least some of the reason /why/ he's a long time Debian guy is because he felt as though Debian was a superior starting point, though I don't pretend to speak for him. Your assessment, however, is highly implausible.

Who maintains RPM?

Posted Aug 24, 2006 12:35 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] (1 responses)

Not only that, but Debian is 100% developed, directed, and controlled by volunteers. They have a robust constitution and regular public elections, open to all developers. Anyone in the world can become a Debian Developer. The distribution is completely free AND completely open. Red Hat and Fedora are absolutely inappropriate for serving as the basis for a major new Linux distribution such as Ubuntu.

Who maintains Debian?

Posted Aug 31, 2006 21:31 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

> a robust constitution
I've heard differing opinions from Debian folks, regarding "robust".

> Anyone in the world can become a Debian Developer.
Especially if said anyone is to become the first DD in the country. Well here in Ukraine, they've trusted ALT Linux security officer who has signed my key before, and so I've signed the particular person on meeting him (it appeared we've graduated the same university, even). Wonder if this was not the case.

Just to put some sane facts over your mad science. :)