CPack Packaging for Windows/Mac (and possibly Linux)

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi Sune, 

On Sunday 24 August 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:25:03 Mike Arthur wrote:
> > In my experience using CPack however I'm pretty sure we could get the
> > package generators in such a state that they could be used downstream.
>
> My impression (without much look at it) is that the deb support might be
> producing technically valid debian packages, but not of a quality
> suitable for debian.
>
> .. and some guy within the last months came by debian developer maillist
> talking about how he implemented the .deb support - and a few mails
> later he said that he never read the debian packaging policies, but just
> reverse engineered .deb packages.
>
> That has at least convinced me to not spend any further time looking at
> the .deb support in cmake in the near future.

There can't be that much wrong with the generated deb packages, at least I 
don't see how there could be problems which couldn't be fixed.
Concrete input from actual debian packagers would be the best way to get it 
into a shape where you would accept it :-)

Alex