-src package standard: proposal #5 and #5a

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hallo Gareth,

2001-11-19 17:43:13, du schriebst:

In the whole discussion about package tools I want to point out
that there are other possibilities:

http://www.gnupdate.org/about.xml

Open Source (LGPL), parts are based on libcurl which is already in the dist
included.  I built successful libcomprex and leakbug with shared libs and I
guess the other components will build too, need to check this now.

It sounds very 'modern', they use RDF (XML Resource Description Format).
It is a young project, so it should be possible to take influence to do the
right thing from the beginning.

Comments?

Gerrit
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