On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, > > > "Maintainer" > > > means "An individual or group of people primarily responsible for the > > > on-going well being of a package". As I understand it, in Ubuntu, the > > > MOTUs > > > have responsibility for all of the packages in Universe. > > > > 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 > > The thing is not exactly like that though, what really happens is that you > simply rebuild those packages and upload them to universe, without even asking > the debian maintainers, which is exactly the reason for this long thread, > since some object to getting bug reports for the ubuntu builds of their > packages.
Arg, and to make matters worse, this discussion is CCed to a closed-moderated-list, Matt, this is really not a friendly way to have a conversation. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]