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Re: custom vs. derivative (Re: packages.gz corrupt, missing packages and other issues)



Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes:

> To throw in another thought I had last night, after our discussion: Debian Edu 
> is not 99,867% Debian as I wrote yesterday, but 100%. It's an official Debian 
> subproject, so it is Debian. It only takes 99,867% from stable and 
> stable-updates, and the rest is from our archive, which is an official 
> archive of an official Debian subproject. There are other official archives 
> too: volatile comes to mind, and hopefully backports will soon be official 
> too.

I'm sorry but Debian-Edu archive aren't part of Debian archive fully.

So it's at 99,867% in Debian.

> Also there is the issue that Debian Edu might release within Lenny, but then 
> produce independent pointreleases of it afterwards. (Then we will again have 
> less than 100% of our packages from main, security updatdes and volatile.) 
> And then we might also use packages during development, which are not yet in 
> Debian (cause they are stuck in NEW in Debian or whatever.)

The point releases might need to be coordinated with SRM team and get
the changes on Debian and then build from it. That's the way I see it.

> And there might be nonfree blends. 

Pure Non-Free Debian Blend looks... c r a z y ;-)

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