Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:57:51PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't agree. This isn't even the case within Debian. Binary-only NMUs don't modify the source package, even though the binaries are

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:03:05 -0800, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you realize that Xandros, who maintains a Debian derivative which they box and sell for US$50-$129 per copy, leaves the Maintainer field unmodified, and as far as I'm aware, was doing so for a period of *years* before

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Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:15:15PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:03:05 -0800, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you realize that Xandros, who maintains a Debian derivative which they box and sell for US$50-$129 per copy, leaves the Maintainer field unmodified, and

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-19 Thread Sven Mueller
(dropping debian-devel, this is really not a technical issue) Matt Zimmerman wrote on 17/01/2006 20:44: I would very much appreciate if folks would review http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html and consider the points that I raise there. I put some effort into collating

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-19 Thread JanC
On 1/17/06, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about renaming Maintainer to Debian-Maintainer in Ubuntu's binary packages, and having a specific Ubuntu-Maintainer? This should probably happen in a way that all (or most) Debian-derived distro's agree on then. And one more problem:

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:36:18AM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: (dropping debian-devel, this is really not a technical issue) Matt Zimmerman wrote on 17/01/2006 20:44: 1. Most of the source packages in Ubuntu are inherited from Debian unchanged (example: tetex-base). False. They are