Cooperation with Debian

[Jérôme Marant]

Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at canonical.com> writes:

> Indeed, this sentence is misleading. Both the Debian and the Warty
> package were fixed according to the information from #274427. Above
> changelog did not fix the bug itself, but rather merged Debian's and
> Ubuntu's changes. Since it is way too much effort to research the
> history of each patch during package merges, changelogs should be
> formulated in a more neutral fashion. However, I assure you that this
> did not happen deliberately and is an exception, not the rule. Please
> take our excuses for this.

No problem.

[...]

> The best way is (IMHO) still to continue to maintain the package in
> Debian proper. We will merge the changes from time to time, and
> packages that are not diverged by Ubuntu are automatically
> synchronized every day. If we make changes to Ubuntu that are of
> interest to Debian, too, we generally follow the approach to offer
> these changes to Debian. This does not only help other users, too, but
> also eases our future work, so we do have some motivation to give back
> :-)

Understood :-)

Regards,

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