"What I like least in Ubuntu"

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:42:49 PM Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
...
> I agree that it is confusing, but I don't think it has to be. The
> ArchiveReorganisation[1] wiki page hasn't been edited in the last 2
> years and it hasn't been revisited at UDS. The process is effectively
> stalled for now. The Components[2] sub-page says that there would no
> longer be a separate main and universe and that MOTU (I guess it will
> need a new name since it would technically be something different) would
> take care of unseeded packages.
...

At UDS for Karmic (Barcelona) we had a session that defined the current state 
of things.  We discussed renaming MOTU and decided against it.  IMO this sort 
of "Oh, it's different now ..." "MOTU will need to be renamed ..." discussion 
is counter productive and adds to the confusion.

As far as I'm aware, no restrictive package sets have been implemented yet 
that would prevent MOTU from uploading non-Main packages, so while there is a 
lot of theory, nothing has actually changed for MOTU.  What has changed is 
packagesets (and PPU) that give people most limited access to upload that are 
not MOTU.

Scott K