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Re: Couchdb package



On Thursday 14 January 2010 22:24:02, Sam Bisbee wrote:
> As I said before, you can fork something without making code changes to it.
> It's a fork because the packaging is significantly different than the way
>  it's packaged upstream. I did not mean to suggest that upstream doesn't
>  want people to use CouchDB in the way you're suggesting, but it's packaged
>  upstream to default to a system wide service. As I understand it we are
>  not in the business of changing that unless we have a real technical
>  reason to do so (ie., doesn't meet Debian policy or there's a bug).

Upstream is not doing any packaging at all.
It's up to the downstream maintainers, you, deciding how to distribute the 
software :-)

Do you have any pointer to this "upstream decision"?

Kindly,
David

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