Getting new packages into Ubuntu

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:51:37PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 20:55 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:09:54PM -0700, Evan Broder wrote:
> > > If we're going to focus on making this easier, can we focus on the
> > > first two options? Historically speaking, packages that live solely in
> > > Ubuntu and aren't part of any release's user experience tend to end up
> > > largely orphaned by a MOTU team that's overworked and understaffed.
> > 
> > Amen.  Even just from fixing builds over the last few weeks, I'm getting
> > tired of fixing stuff that was stuffed into Ubuntu a few releases ago
> > and then ignored!
> 
> I'm slightly curious. If someone managed to get a package in Ubuntu, but
> then stopped maintaining it, why would encouraging him to get it into
> Debian make him more likely to maintain it?

My observation is that Debian is more proactive about removing packages
that are no longer maintained than we are, and we semi-automatically
follow removals from Debian.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]