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Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?



On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:06:18PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:18:13PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean by this; do you mean packages with circular
> > dependencies which must be bootstrapped manually?  If so, this is generally
> > handled by our buildd admins.
> 
> Actually, it's handled by those that start the port. Once one version of
> said package has been compiled and is available, the previous version
> can always be used to build the next version.

The "our" above was Ubuntu, where those are the same people.

-- 
 - mdz



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