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Re:The Most Prolific Packager for Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away by bfrog on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:16PM (#36947462)
Sure, but building debian packages is akin to needing to read lord of the rings before doing anything. There's so many deb helpers and various files/file formats that need to be understood. How and where files should go. It's horrendously complex compared to PKGBUILD and makepkg.
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Re:The Most Prolific Packager for Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away by secondcoming on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:01PM (#36947994)
Yup, been there and walked away from it all.
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Re:The Most Prolific Packager for Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away by teddyh on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:46AM (#36957576)
It’s not great, true, but it’s not quite that bad. There are tools to generate templates, and “lintian” will complain about the package for most everything which is possible to get wrong.
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