Getting closer to the merge: converting rpms to debs

• After a lot of effort, all standard Linux packages in the image had been upgraded to much newer ProdNG built ones.

• We were left with internally built packages, built natively as RPMs

• Then started the joy of converting RPMs to debs, especially changelogs (they are free-form in RPMs, without timezones in dates, and real syntax in changelog lines).

• But nothing that a very ugly parser script can't take care of.

• We ended up with a combination of alien(1) and our custom changelog converter (alien doesn't convert changelogs, and full changelogs are required for our package reviews)