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On a more serious note, I beleive that one great thing that should come of this is for APT to maintain .deb and .rpm databases for all packages installed. I think this should be defined in the LSB. Its stupid to restrict everyone that is LSB complient to just one package format, but its not stupid to think that APT can maintain the databases for all package formats.

I think it definatly seems this will happen on Debian systems, if only because the LSB currently states we must support RPM's, but why not make something like APT mandatory for all distro's? Makes more sense to me then making the RedHat Package Manager mandatory. Advanced Package Tool seems much more distro non-specific...

Anyway, I have said since Fedora was created that it should work with Debian (I have been on #fedora on freenode and debated this). It just makes sense, and Fedora project and RedHat Projects were merged because "the goal was too simular to maintain seperatly", well Fedora and Debian are pretty simular also. Only difference being that Debian is controlled by the community, and Fedora is controlled by a distro. If RedHat takes away its control, they are essentially the same.

And to the person that said that its crazy to have tests etc to be able to maintain for a project, you would rather any fool be able to maintain the packages you install? I think not. I know I don't want any packages on my system that was created by a fool!

Anyway, afaict, none of this has been uploaded to unstable yet. When/if it does, I think this will definatly be a good thing no matter what ends up happening with it.