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[Steffen Moeller]

Hello,

I meant platforms of Debian, so I must admit. Since we do not have any scripts 
associated with out packages, it should be fairly straight forward though to 
use alien for the preparation of other distribution's packages.

> > a) Debian is generally good for the provisioning of runtime environments
> > since the platform does not matter - the packages are available on them
> > all b) We can seamlessly redo our automated builds on arbitrary platforms
> > and achieve the same cross-platformness even when not using the Debian
> > infrastructure directly.
>
> Can we?  Or don't we have explicit/implicit dependencies of
> "Debianness" in terms of
>
>   a) package availability,
I do not think that this will be an issue for the vast majority of packages

>   b) naming (!!) [ almost every distro calls, say, Postgres libs
>      something else ]
indeed, this is an issue, I do not know if alien manages this. The use of 
the "_" in package names is different.

>   c) infrastructure (pbuilder, ...)
I think we should go the "alien"-route if we seek for packages beyond Debian.

> > As Dirk pointed out, we are opting for b) with some bits in a).
>
> Maybe we we are able to 'b-1)': redo on "arbitrary hardware provided
> it runs Debian testing"  :)
yip, this is what I actually meant.

> As Henry Ford said: You can have the car in any color provided it is
> black.
:-) but some alien help with recolo(u)ring.

Cheers,

Steffen
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