Re: Utnubu Team Founded - Merging Ubuntu changes to Debian

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>
>> I invite everyone interested to join the Utnubu Team. Utnubu stands for
> Great name for this! ;-)
>
>> doing what Ubuntu does, just the other way around: We want to take the
>> things Ubuntu does and that are missing in Debian, and - where
>> appliciable - put them in Debian.
> I absolutely support the idea.  I recently wondered whether we could
> write some tool which compares package names + versions from both
> repositories and then looking up the diff archive Scott is kindly
> providing.

For the first part we (debian-amd64) have a script to compare Sources
and Packages files between two distributions (debian and debian-amd64
for us) and split them into package/version that are in one, the other
and both efficiently.

If anyone is intrested in adapting this drop me a note.

MfG
        Goswin