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Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu



On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:46:51AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > In practice, it doesn't work out to mean the same thing, however.  Most of
> > > the packages in universe are maintained only by the Debian maintainer, and
> > 
> > The thing is not exactly like that though, what really happens is that you
> > simply rebuild those packages and upload them to universe, without even asking
> > the debian maintainers, which is exactly the reason for this long thread,
> > since some object to getting bug reports for the ubuntu builds of their
> > packages.
> 
> I've already addressed all of your points repeatedly in this thread.

Huh, what points ? First, sorry but i got lost in the thread somewhere at
about a quarter of its current size, so i may have missed some.

That said, you claim that "Most of the packages in universe are maintained
only by the Debian maintainer", and that is simply a mis-representation, if
not an outhright lie. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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