Lag between source and packages

[damaged justice <frogfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>One of the things I have noted is that there's a lag between the release of a
>product and the time someone packages it into an RPM. 

I tried to do my part to help out on this by making a .tar.gz into an RPM, but
something about the process still eludes me. The Debian package format seems a
good deal simpler to comprehend and use; I'm also playing around with ALIEN,
which translates from one package format to another. There's a nice comparison
of the formats at

http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html

In any event, once one knows how to make a package, one can easily contribute
to the community by packing up the latest and greatest source and then making
it available. Don't forget to PGP-sign the package if possible, and/or send it
to a recognized official maintainer or mirror site. 

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