On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:58:33PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > But for new packages, where Canonical is striking out on its own > > to deliver significant new functionality and the folks working on these > > packages are not DDs, there's a clear pragmatic argument for doing the work > > directly in Ubuntu rather than blocking the work on finding folks able to > > upload to Debian and willing to maintain the packages there. > > To be a devil's advocate: when the Debian Developers that a company > has been able to contact (inside or outside the company) do not > consider a package to be ready for upload, it is not hard to > contribute the packaging to Debian in an RFP bug to avoid duplication > of effort. > Indeed, this answers the first point, but the second is more significant - willing to maintian the packages there. Neil --
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