For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

Sven Luther sven.luther at wanadoo.fr
Sat Jan 21 11:53:13 GMT 2006


On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:44:12AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:53:26AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > In practice, it doesn't work out to mean the same thing, however.  Most of
> >> > the packages in universe are maintained only by the Debian maintainer, and
> >> > propagated unmodified into Ubuntu.  It is only when there is a specific
> >> > motive to change the package in Ubuntu that anyone on that team will touch
> >> > it.
> >> 
> >> They are *not* maintained by the Debian maintainer, for the simple
> >> reason that the Debian maintainer does not have control over the
> >> contents of the package!
> >
> > Ok, now can you explain this inconsitency, you say in another mail that most
> > ubuntu packages are maintained by the debian maintainers.
> 
> Um, no, I don't recally saying in another email that ubuntu packages
> are maintained by the Debian maintainers.  In fact, I've said the opposite.
> 
> Are you confusing me with Matt?

Oh, yes, sorry.

Friendly,

Sven Luther




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