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I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) (getfresh.dev)
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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I looked at .deb as well and boy are there weird things there.

There are many similarities between RPM and pkgbuild for Arch, so I could easily copy almost entire pkgbuilds from AUR and merely adapt a few variables but whatever the inventors of .deb concocted is crazy.

That build method dates back super-far, and probably mirrors unix packaging of the day. This is not a good thing, in that it did miss out on some validation features that RPM and NIX have, and that's a problem that hasn't been fixed (in unix or debian) even now (25+ years after we noticed it in the enterprise OS company I worked at, and which invalidated debian even then as a product we wanted to support alongside unix).