Who maintains RPM?

> 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.

And then we end up with the same nightmare that we had between Red Hat and SuSE. Where the RH/SuSE debs will have clashing names for different contents etc etc. And who gives way and changes packaging policy?

Can anyone name a apt/deb distro that is NOT a debian derivative? They've inherited the original packaging/naming policy, and can be declared out-of-line if they're different. When SuSE adopted rpm, they had an existing policy. If RH/SuSE adopt apt/deb, they will bring that same problem to the .deb world.

Cheers,
Wol