Seeking new maintainer for apt and synaptic

[Michael J. Knox]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> 
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> apt/synaptic have been orphaned since about half a year, anyone
>> objecting in me taking over?
>>
> 
> Not really an objection, but do we want to confuse users with an extra 
> way to manage repositories. Also APT AFAIK still doesn't handle multi-lib.
> 
> Is there any significant reason to use apt instead of yum? Don't get me 
> wrong choice usually is good, but this is a very fundamental piece of 
> the distro, and becoming so more and more. We also have only one kernel, 
> C-library and X-server and with good reasons.
> 



No, apt doesn't support multi lib..

However, in my work enviro, I have a mix of debain/RHEL/FC and using one 
package tool makes life, from a script view point, a heck of a lot easier.

Michael