[Apt-Rpm] apt-rpm and rpm 4.8

[Robert Xu]

Hi All...

19 May 2010 06:28 Giulio Eulisse wrote:

>> IIRC the 0.5.15lorg3.94a wont build and much less work, but git HEAD should
>> be buildable even with rpm 4.8, provided you pass >CPPFLAGS=-D_RPM_4_4_COMPAT
>> to configure.
>
>Ciao again and thanks for your reply (which got swallowed as well).
>I'm trying what you suggest out.
>
>
>> That said, apt-rpm needs a new maintainer / maintainers. I simply don't have
>> the time/energy/itch anymore, as is painfully obvious from the complete lack
>> of activity around apt-rpm in last couple of years.
>
>I took the liberty to clone the master branch of your repository on
>github (github.org) in the "upstream" branch of:
>
>http://github.com/ktf/apt-rpm
>
>and I added a couple of workarounds we need in my master branch.

What I'm wondering is if the Caixa Magica branch of apt-rpm was from
the most recent commit (like Feb 2009?).

I think most people should just switch to zypper, since it's the only
C++ package manager that's actively developed and used. It'd be nice
if Synaptic could be ported to zypper; it'd work well, not to mention
be a lot faster.

>
>Any objections to it? I of course can delete the whole thing and
>propose patches, if you prefer.


Later,
Robert Xu