On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:07:58AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > We'll keep our user base
> That's what I doubt. Ubuntu LTS will be better than Debian stable in > all aspects, why should anybody continue using Debian stable? You believe that Debian, releasing with approximately the same set of packages as an Ubuntu LTS but with a requirement to only release when ready instead of releasing on a fixed schedule as Ubuntu LTS will, offers no relevant differentiation at all for users? Doesn't this imply that everyone who continues using Debian today does so merely as an accident of the release schedule and the particular set of packages that land in a given Debian release? OTOH, perhaps you're saying that you think that the proposed sychronization will be successful, and as a result Ubuntu's quality will come up, eliminating a key differentiator between the two at present? > > and the possible improvements in both distributions will help us do > > better in the competition with other operating systems > Which improvements could Debian get from Ubuntu? An installer that > doesn't ask any questions, or non-free proprietary (graphics) drivers? There seems to be an assumption here that Ubuntu would benefit from bugfixes from Debian developers, but that the reverse would not be true. Is this what you believe? Does that mean you don't think Ubuntu developers contribute fixes back to Debian today? While never committing to keep any given package in sync with Debian, Ubuntu developers certainly are actively engaged in pushing their changes upstream to Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org