Who maintains RPM?

> Sounds like a job for Freedesktop.org to me.

> It's in the LSB so all distros have to support it, right?

Wrong. rpm the program is NOT in the lsb.

A subset of the rpm spec is in the lsb. Most importantly, if you use rpm features that are not supported by alien, then you cannot be lsb-compliant.

Declaration of interest - I was part of the lsb when all this was hashed out. I didn't particularly agree with what the lsb was doing back then, nor do I agree now, but I got involved to try and influence things. Unfortunately (from my pov) the juggernaut was not for turning ...

Cheers,
Wol