Regarding Moving packages from Universe section to main section

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:58:24AM +0530, Chandan M C wrote:
>  Thanks for the reply ... can you please give me the procedure ubuntu is
> fololwing to sync and merge the pacakges from debian ...

Not really, no; merging is a huge effort by the whole development team.
Working out what to sync and what to merge is basically just a big
version number comparison.

Seriously, if doing a version comparison to work out what to sync and
what to merge is hard, then managing a distribution over the long term
is going to be a very difficult task indeed.

> How do I generate the seeds list ... How different seed list is generated in
> Ubuntu ..

The seeds are written by hand, not generated. Work out what packages you
want to support and seed those.

> May I know How Ubuntu setup the archive for their first release "warty"..
> Was there all 4 components (main.universe,restricte,mutliverse) at that time
> also ...

Yes.

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/

> How you synced and merged for the first release..as Ubuntu doesnt
> had its own repo for its first release ...

We had our own archive almost right from the start. The only "release"
we ever made not from our own archive was the first test CD of Warty,
which was only released to Canonical employees for testing. After that,
we sucked in all source packages from Debian and started modifying them
as necessary.

> Other thing .. Is Ubuntu rebuilding all 15000 pacakges of Debian or directly
> syncing binaries and source ...

We only sync source, and always rebuild all binaries.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]