Alien: .rpm -> .deb | Compability / Built per system?

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Published on 2012-10-01T20:26:54Z Indexed on 2012/10/01 21:40 UTC
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At the moment I'm playing a bit with alien (for OpenVZ packages on Debian) and was wondering myself about one question for which I was not able to find an answer anywhere. Therefor I thought it might be smart to ask here :)

The question is...
If I convert a .rpm to .deb on a system, how compatible is this .deb package?

What do I mean?
Will the .deb be working on other systems as well or is it per-system, e.g. that on every system the .deb package will be little different?

That i386 and x86_64 are different is clear, so this doesn't need to be answered :)

Examples that would be nice to know are for example:

.deb built on Debian 6 64-bit -> Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit (compatible?)
.deb built on Debian 6 64-bit -> Debian 5 64-bit (compatible?) etc.

Thanks anyone reading this / helping me!

Regards, Michel

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