Re: state of apt-rpm development?

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

> > Just curious -- it's been a while since there's been a new apt-rpm
> > version.  Do the developers have anything cool waiting up their
> > sleeves? Or is the project pretty much perfect at this point? :)
> 
> Yes, we have something really cool waiting up. It's not a new APT-RPM
> release though, but a completely new software being built to replace
> it, based on the experience acquired in the last few years of package
> managing.  It has impressive capabilites if compared to current
> dependency solving softwares (no it won't replace RPM/DPKG). The press
> release is being planned, and I'm starting to think about the
> technical paper explaining the details.

Looking forward to it... but in the meanwhile we could actually use a new 
apt-rpm release, the svn tree does have quite a few fixes and some new 
stuff since 0.5.15cnc6.

	- Panu -