Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 09:53:06PM +0200, Frank Heimes wrote: > There is a little bit more on "removing packages" here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Removing_Packages > So it's actually a 'must' to have a LP bug for getting a package removed. The word "must" does not

Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
On Sunday, May 5, 2024 12:53:06 PM PDT Frank Heimes wrote: > There is a little bit more on "removing packages" here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Removing_Packages > So it's actually a 'must' to have a LP bug for getting a package removed. > > BR, Frank Hi Frank, I

Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Frank Heimes
There is a little bit more on "removing packages" here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Removing_Packages So it's actually a 'must' to have a LP bug for getting a package removed. BR, Frank On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 7:32 PM Simon Quigley wrote: > Hi Dima, > > As a Debian

Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Jeremy Bícha
On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 3:12 AM Dima Kogan wrote: > 2. As I just discovered, when Ubuntu rebuilds the archive for a release, >packages that FTBFS are silently dropped. There's no bug report on >either of the two bug trackers. I'm upstream for a project that has >been excluded from

Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Simon Quigley
Hi Dima, As a Debian Developer myself, I understand your concerns. Processes in this respect could be slightly better, but it also comes down to the differences between the two distributions. More detailed responses inline. On 5/2/24 10:56 AM, Dima Kogan wrote: Hello. I'm a Debian

Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Dima Kogan
Hello. I'm a Debian developer, and contribute to Ubuntu only indirectly: by my contributions to Debian being automatically pulled into Ubuntu. But since Ubuntu has more users than Debian, most of MY users use the Ubuntu packages. So I'd like to talk about improving the links between the two