How does universe works?

[Bryan Pizzuti]

 I was kind of wondering about that.  Because, if anyone has noticed, if you
try to install the PHPGroupware packages off of the "Universe" then it fails
because a package is "unavailable" (I think it's php-imap). Someone forgot a
package somewhere...I had to add Debian's testing  URL's to the repository
list in order for it to install.

I realize that the "Universe" is unsupported, but is anyone making sure that
everything that needs to be there is in there? ;)

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Stone
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:27 AM
To: Sascha Morr
Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: How does universe works?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:56:51AM +0200, Sascha Morr wrote:
> how exactly does universe works? are there one or some people that 
> compile die programs and build the packages or a maintainer for each 
> package like in debian?

universe was originally imported straight from Debian sid, and just fed to
our farm of autobuilders, so there was very, very little human intervention.
Most packages have no Ubuntu maintainer.

However, some universe packages have since been updated for Ubuntu.

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Daniel Stone
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