Re: Why need Debian?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:07:11PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> A few times I have statements in the ubuntu website that there can't
> be Ubuntu if there's no Debian. This statement seems to me like it's
> only relevant to Warty
No, it was very much still true for Hoary and Breezy, and will be for Dapper
as well.
>, but why should they continue taking debian sources, especially
>considering that Ubuntu's main is normally ahead of Debian's sid? Is it the
>avoidance of effort duplication or is a matter of maintaining compatibility
>or...?
In the instances where Ubuntu main is ahead, it's because we start with
Debian as a base and then update specific packages to meet our goals, not
because we duplicate Debian's efforts (or are able to).
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- mdz
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