Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:40:04PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Debian does, in fact, treat most of its upstreams precisely this way.
> Debian publishes a large portion of its changes primarily in the form of
> monolithic diffs relative to upstream source. The last time I saw figures,
> the usage of dpatch, cdbs, etc. was rising, but not yet the standard
> operating procedure.
That doesn't necessarily mean much; see cvs-buildpackage,
tla-buildpackage, darcs-buildpackage, svn-buildpackage, etc. Plus I
suspect there are plenty of packages out there that are maintained in
some sort of VC environment without using these specific maintenance
scripts.
-- John
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