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)

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.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net