Easy way to incorporate Ubuntu improvements back into Debian?
Hi,
Ubuntu benefits alot from Debian. They have custom development tools
for streamlining the process of taking Debian packages and making them
into Ubuntu packages.
I'm curious: does the reverse of this exist for the convenience of
Debian Developers somehow? For example (just a thought): how about a
Debian Developer receiving an email every time Ubuntu has added
something (possibly juicy) to a Debian package (that the DD maintains)
upon Ubuntu adding it? In this way, the juicy bits that Ubuntu adds
could possibly get back to into Debian quicker.
What processes, infrastructure and tools are in place to streamline
Debian integrating improvements Ubuntu makes?
The reason I ask is that there are several huge usability improvements
that Ubuntu has over Debian that I would love to see in Debian. What
are the chances of Debian catching up to the quantum leap in usability
that Ubuntu has added in Etch? Has Ubuntu been consistent in sending
all these goodies back upstream to Debian (or farther)?
It seems to me that Ubuntu is getting alot more out of their friendship
with Debian, than Debian gets out of Ubuntu. Anyone have comments on
this? Please correct me if I'm wrong, and examples would be great.
Does Debian get lots of benefits from Ubuntu (in the software) that I'm
unaware of?
Don't get me wrong, I deeply dig Ubuntu and Debian. I would just like
to get a pulse for who is benefiting more (and by how much) out of the
relationship, and hear some technical examples of processes and
instances of these benefits (especially in the direction of Ubuntu to
Debian).
Cheers,
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Dustin Harriman
http://annexia.ca
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