Re: state of apt-rpm development?

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:15:40AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is there support for multilib in svn? It's sad to see FC/RHEL x86_64
> (and the miriads of clones) w/o apt ... :(

Nope. And yes it's unfortunate...

> 
> What (else) is new in svn?

"svn -r316:367 log https://oops.kerneljanitors.org/repos/apt-rpm/trunk/"
will give you the full changelog between 0.5.15cnc6 and now.

	- Panu -