New software created for Ubuntu

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 03 May 2010, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Apologies for parachuting in and hijacking this thread, but I don't think it's
> a matter of people not wanting their work to show up in Debian and Ubuntu.  I
> think it's a matter of two different enough development policies and
> infrastructures.  It's difficult to grasp the details of how to deploy
> packages for each distribution, let alone the best way to sync packages
> between them.  Even if you do get it, it's time consuming to support both.
> The question is: what can be done to make life easier for those who /want/ to
> do the right thing?

The real question is: what was difficult for the people who tried it?

I'll gladly try to make any supplementary improvement in the
infrastructure on the Debian side if needed but I don't think we can speak
in the void without basing the discussion on concrete experience.

The most annoying part IMO is the need to find a sponsor on the Debian side if
you're not Debian Maintainer or Debian Developer. Maybe there should be a
team on the ubuntu side composed of DD also involved in Ubuntu that would
be more inclined to sponsor those in the generic case.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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