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Re: custom vs. derivative



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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:12:29PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Friday 04 April 2008 15:38, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, vagrant@freegeek.org wrote:
>> > i think it's worth making the distinction between:
>> >
>> >  * completely within debian
>> >
>> >  * making progress towards being entirely within debian
>> >
>> >  * little to no intention of being completely within debian
>>
>> You are right that these are distinctive features of three
>> different things.  The question is how you would like to measure
>> these features.  The first one is easy, but the second and third are
>> hard to measure.  Is it enough if people claim to have this feature?
>
>The first one is not that easy as well. What does "within Debian" mean? 
>Stable? Unstable? Volatile? Proposed updates? Are rebuild backports from the 
>same sources allowed? Or do you need to take the binaries from Debian?

Debian is what Debian defines as Debian.  What you can apply the strict 
logo to.

I agree that "within Debian" is vague.  But "completely within Debian" 
is not ambiguous to me.

I have no interest in working on the other terms.


  - Jonas

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