On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:09:20AM +0200, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote:
> Hello there!
Hi Jean-Michel, welcome on this list and thanks for sharing all this
info about Doudoulinux and the state of the collaboration with Debian.
It's great that you want to stay close to Debian and don't worry, we do
understand the "lack of volunteers" problem that might slow down things
a bit.
> On the technical side our philosophy is to keep stuck to Debian as
> much as possible. We are then trying to patch very few packages and
> to avoid including non-officially maintained software. Due to the
> use of a live system build process, our changes to the standard
> Debian flavor are generally not available in patched packages (it is
> much easier to put a modified file in the live tree than to make a
> package – sorry). Our changes are of different nature:
I guess you are already in touch with the Debian Live people, but in
case you are not please consider mailing debian-live@lists.d.o and point
them to your changes. I'm pretty sure they'll be interested in having a
look at them.
Regarding other changes you might have done, it would be nice if ---
volunteering manpower permitting --- you could report bug proposing your
patches. In doing so, I suggest systematically user tagging them in a
way that makes it possible to find a list of it. In the experience we
have with other derivatives, it's nice to be able to point to the
improvement to Debian suggested that way and it might also help us
organize "merge campaigns" such as those we do with DEX.
Thanks again for contacting us!
Cheers.
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