On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:58 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > What I find very dissapointing is that mdz asked on debian-devel twice > > for a decision from debian how ubuntu should handle the maintainer Field > > without any luck: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00678.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html > > That's probably because different maintainers will have different opinions > on this matter. > > > packages just imported from Debian? Or can we live with an less > > intrusive approach? > > IMHO a "if, and only if we modify it, we upload it with our name in > changelog and uploaders field" rule would be quite a good compromise. But > that's my personal opinion, of course. "Modify" is a tricky word. Most of my packages go into Ubuntu unmodified, in that the diff.gz is the same. However, they use an entirely different infrastructure -- new minor GTK and Python versions. Since binary-level compatibility is not a goal of Ubuntu (nor IMO should it be; down that path lies madness), they modify every package in a very important sense. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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