Hello, At mid-July 2009 a long (and heated, until August) discussion thread started at debian-project list regarding release dates, freeze dates, cadence and collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/07/threads.html Mr. Shuttleworth suggested modifying Debian dates in order to sync with Ubuntu LTS. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/08/msg00092.html The long discussion resulted in a suggestion of feasible collaboration approach from Debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/08/msg00273.html And then Ubuntu / Canonical started a task https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-release-collaboration-with-debian that had achieved some advancements in coordination with Debian:
Whiteboard Work items: kernel: DONE [vorlon]python: DONE [vorlon]gcc: DONE perl: DONE openoffice: DONE [kitterman]boost: DONE Work items for ubuntu-10.04-beta-1: [bryceharrington] X: DONE Work items for ubuntu-10.04-beta-2: [doko] java: DONE Status: Kernel=2.6.32, GCC=4.4, Python=2.6, OOo=3.2, Perl=5.10.1, Boost=1.40 (with the freeze delay, Debian looks like it’s going to 1.42, but it’s probably not worth the pain of us doing another transition for Lucid), Mesa=7.7, xserver=1.7, Java (IcedTea)=1.8 And Debian Project launched a new front desk: http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100629 Do we have a new status update at these efforts? I hope these first efforts, that are being observed by other teams at both sides, could result valuable enough to motivate other teams to participate, at BOTH sides. Maybe, OpenSuse community could join these same-upstream-version efforts. At a win-win agreement, all involved benefit from. Good luck for all. Andre Felipe Machado