Re: Difference between Ubuntu and Debian Java packages

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@gmail.com>]

  Hello,

Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> The Java team takes care of a lot of packages (428)[3] and it's hard to
> keep track of all packages. It becomes harder when you also need to
> track the changes in other distros.
> 
> A simple thing to do is to look for changes in Ubuntu and try to
> minimize the difference between the two distros by backporting these
> changes.
> 
> This afternoon, I made a quick script[1][4] to see the difference.

  I don't mean to diminish the work you did, but most of these are
obvious on

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

  when you choose to display Ubuntu in the display configuration: the
packages with a version in Ubuntu greater than in Debian show up as
purple in the Ubuntu column.

  BTW, maybe that would be a valuable addition to the PET tracker ??

http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi

  Meanwhile, I agree that it is best to keep the diff with Ubuntu as
small as reasonably possible.

  Cheers,

	Vincent

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