Robert Ancell [2012-10-17 10:48 +1300]: > - By updating packages in Debian and waiting for them to flow down to > Ubuntu kills our velocity. It can change the time from upstream release > to being in Ubuntu from hours (which is too long in my opinion) to days.
Yes, I agree that this is an issue at times. It usually works reasonably well for me to upload a new version to Debian and fakesync it into Ubuntu at the same time, but I have (1) DD upload powers and (2) everything set up to build packages for Debian, which is not true for the majority of Ubuntu Desktop developers. However, at the same time I strongly believe that directly working on Debian's packaging VCSes has some major benefits: Technically we avoid duplicate work and potential conflicts (such as naming new packages slightly differently, or a bug fix independently done on both sides works in a different way/with different API), and socially it's a great way of giving something back to Debian in return for having Debian do the vast majority of work of building Ubuntu. It also avoids the need of having to wade through large and mostly pointless merge deltas every so often, a work that nobody is really very fond of. Would an acceptable compromise be to commit fixes and new releases to Debian's GNOME svn, but then just do a -Nubuntu1 upload from those, at least for the packages which we want to keep in sync by and large? Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop