Universal package specification

martin f krafft madduck at madduck.net
Sun Nov 29 10:53:14 PST 2009


also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodinsky at gmail.com> [2009.11.29.1948 +0100]:
> Not really. It's possible to standardise just on shared libraries for
> example. Providing the software is self-contained, it will be able to
> work on compliant distributions if it just uses those libraries to
> interact with the system and nothing else. Add DBus interfaces to that
> and you can give developers more freedom.

So we should have different package formats for shared libs and dbus
interfaces?

Also, did you read up on binary compatibility between Debian and
Ubuntu?

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