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 -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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