blog entry: "Ubuntu and Debian"

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:34:23PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> >It means that he feels that someone else could do a better job, to which I
> >can only respond that the playing field is wide open.
> 
> Meanwhile they still don't respond to bug reports:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373649
> 
> One would think that a bug report that includes a PATCH would be easy
> to classify, instead of leaving out there forever in limbo.

That package is orphaned in Debian, so there is no one looking after it.
(that's what the "QA group" maintainer means).

In general, I expect that Debian is more responsive to bugs than Ubuntu,
simply because the developer-to-bug ratio is much, much higher.

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 - mdz