Packaging in Linux

Mark Shuttleworth writes about packaging in the free software world in his latest blog entry and I totally agree with him. Why do we have .deb and .rpm and so on? It would be nice if most would use the same thing. It should be made as easy as possible to make packages of a given piece of software that would work in all the major distros. The easier it is, the less errors will be made and having to make packages for different distros takes time away from doing other stuff like fixing bugs in the software you're packaging.