Oh Boy....

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:28:30AM -0700, Keith Richie wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2005 10:41 AM, Christoph Wegscheider <wegi at despammed.com> wrote:
> 
> Ubuntu is a huge fork in debian. The biggest fear is that quite a few
> debian devs are also Ubuntu devs, debian is "mad" that those devs are
> spending more time on Ubuntu instead of Debian.
> 
The effort's not wasted though, the work gets done whether it gets done
under an Ubuntu banner or a Debian one.

> Case inpoint - KDE 3.4, Gnome 2.10, and Xorg all for Ubuntu, but no
> debian packages.
There's nothing to stop Debian pulling in the Ubuntu source verbatim and
just fixing it up, and I'd be surprised if that's not what eventually
happens.

> Debian's pride is hurt, as most noobs will think that Ubuntu = .deb,
> apt-get, and the other fancy debian tools.
> 
I think there's a bit more to it than that; there have been (and are)
other Debian based distros. I think the problem is that Debian users
recognise the problems they've got (like slow releases), but they don't
know how to fix them, and they're worried that if everyone decamps to
Ubuntu (and, frankly, why wouldn't you?) Debian will die for lack of
attention. That might sound extreme, but it is possible, and even if it
happens it might not be a bad thing; compare with the XFree86 to X.org
transition - the code carried on and all that was left behind was the
bureaucratic structure that had made development stagnate.

Ewan
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