Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:13:21PM +0800, Ben Tinner wrote:
>> On Mon Nov 4 12:41:29 UTC 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>> >Are you planning to get the necessary packages into >Ubuntu itself? That
>> >might help make maintenance a lot easier.
>>
>> The guys at MATE are currently attempting to upload the packages to Debian but as of now there is little progress into it.
>>
>> The MATE repository have MATE packages for Ubuntu available, so I included the MATE repo for the packages.
>>
>> Shall we pull all the MATE packages into the Ubuntu repo directly or we build the sources ourselves?
>
> It would be far superior to fix the problem with uploading to Debian
> rather than working around it by uploading directly to Ubuntu or by
> maintaining a separate repository.  Unless there is a *lot* of effort
> available to deal with Ubuntu-local packaging, having the packages in
> Debian as well generally yields better results.

And there is in fact a team working on packaging MATE for Debian:
pkg-mate-team at lists.alioth.debian.org

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