On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:12:13PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
>> SL 3.0.x and 4.x both have apt for rpms.  But apt does not do well with
>> multiarch releases and it is not maintained as much as it used to be so we
>> took it out for SL 5.
>
> apt-rpm's maintainer is rather active and was even recently employed
> by Red Hat. If you thing there are issues with apt, please report it
> to him, perhaps even through bugzilla.redhat.com (although they will
> first land on my table, but perhaps the Auto-Cc in bugzilla will work)

Did not know this.

>
> FWIW apt and multiarch work fine on i386/x86_64 and ppc/ppc64
> systems. I've heard about issues on ia64 some time back, but don't
> know if they were fixed or not.
>

Last time I had tested it did not work.  What version of apt supports 
multiarch?

-Connie Sieh