There are quite a few #debian tools included in #Fedora . Not just #debhelper: also #devscripts.
But eventually it turned out that this was not enough. Some things (specifically: python2 and python3 debhelper sequences) were missing. So we turned to install Debian in a (s)chroot.
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So #schroot and #debootstrap were also aviable in #Fedora. So it's possible to have a #Debian chroot.
I used debootstrap to install a Debian and an Ubuntu chroots.
Schroot took some love and care, though: it was missing some directories under /var/lib/schroot for copy-on-write top work.
It also interacted badly with the NIS we use at work. This took a number of workarounds. But we now have it working properly.
Tzafrir
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