On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:19:32PM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:44:48AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It is important, in particular, to account for the fact that Ubuntu is not > > the only Debian derivative, and that proposals like yours would amount to > > Debian derivatives being obliged to fork *every source package in Debian* > > for the sake of changing a few lines of text. > > Ubuntu is different in that they rebuild all packages, not just the one > they changes.
The matter at hand above was source packages, not binary packages. Besides which, do you honestly know which packages other Debian derivatives rebuild? As a rule, they are far less communicative about their practices than Ubuntu. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]