Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Colin Watson  wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:13:21PM +0800, Ben Tinner wrote:
>> On Mon Nov 4 12:41:29 UTC 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>> >Are you planning to get the necessary packages into >Ubuntu itself? That
>> >might help make maintenance a lot easier.
>>
>> The guys at MATE are currently attempting to upload the packages to Debian 
>> but as of now there is little progress into it.
>>
>> The MATE repository have MATE packages for Ubuntu available, so I included 
>> the MATE repo for the packages.
>>
>> Shall we pull all the MATE packages into the Ubuntu repo directly or we 
>> build the sources ourselves?
>
> It would be far superior to fix the problem with uploading to Debian
> rather than working around it by uploading directly to Ubuntu or by
> maintaining a separate repository.  Unless there is a *lot* of effort
> available to deal with Ubuntu-local packaging, having the packages in
> Debian as well generally yields better results.

And there is in fact a team working on packaging MATE for Debian:
pkg-mate-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org

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Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:13:21PM +0800, Ben Tinner wrote:
> On Mon Nov 4 12:41:29 UTC 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> >Are you planning to get the necessary packages into >Ubuntu itself? That
> >might help make maintenance a lot easier.
> 
> The guys at MATE are currently attempting to upload the packages to Debian 
> but as of now there is little progress into it.
> 
> The MATE repository have MATE packages for Ubuntu available, so I included 
> the MATE repo for the packages.
> 
> Shall we pull all the MATE packages into the Ubuntu repo directly or we build 
> the sources ourselves?

It would be far superior to fix the problem with uploading to Debian
rather than working around it by uploading directly to Ubuntu or by
maintaining a separate repository.  Unless there is a *lot* of effort
available to deal with Ubuntu-local packaging, having the packages in
Debian as well generally yields better results.

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Colin Watson   [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]

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