[alchemist1e9]

Have you ever come across anything debian -> nix expression tools?

Ubuntu seems to be winning mindshare across the board and while this would be different than nixpkgs itself I was thinking if it is possible to mass convert deb packages into nix expressions, this combined with overlays would allow rapid incremental testing of marginal modifications to a current distribution’s stacking of versions.

A bit like how Nix community has tools on top of the various language packaging systems but this would be a layer on top of the debian packaging standards.

Maybe it’s crazy but just an idea I’ve been having recently and wondering how hard it might be. Importantly debian deb and apt systems are very reproducible and structured which is a good fit for a Nix based layer.