Debian Developers - Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format

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Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format

Matt Zimmerman

2004-07-02, 9:25 pm

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:52:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> I've been watching the fedora community, and it looks like an XML based
> index format is being proposed by the yum developers.
>
> What is the debian project's perspective on this? Is it likely the new
> format will be adopted, or is that going to be left for apt-rpm?

I've been following the rpm-metadata mailing list; so far, I have not seen a
compelling advantage which would justify the investment. I don't see much
momentum on the part of other distributors, either.

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- mdz

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