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Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?



On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > This might be too obvious, but: did you check whether Ubuntu/Scott would be 
> > willing to provide a per-maintainer indexed version on their 
> > patches.ubuntu.com?
> 
> I asked him in February excately this. I don't think he mind that I
> paste it here:
> 
> "Unfortunately as you're probably aware, Debian insists that we don't
> attribute Ubuntu packages to the Debian maintainer anywhere.  Under this
> agreement, we have to change the Maintainer field in our packages.
> 
> One slight problem with this is that we don't have the Debian package
> information at the point we generate that page, it's generated from the
> Ubuntu package information (otherwise it would show packages that
> existed in Debian, but not Ubuntu).
> 
> In order to find the Debian maintainer, we'd have to have an additional
> pass to extract that information -- which would actually be quite
> expensive (unpacking 16,000 source packages every hour!)"

Hum, don't they have the original debian/control when doing the diff ?

Mike



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