On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 02, 2014 10:49:17 Steve Langasek wrote:
> ...
>> Because you're building it from a ppa, so it's not a remix.
> ...
>
> Canonical has published "remixes" that included PPA packages, so there's
> nothing novel about this.  I can't seem to find the official definition of a 
> Remix
> on Ubuntu.com anymore, but IIRC UNR [1] was not fully in the archive when
> initially released.  I don't think the Moblin Remix [2] was either, but my
> memory about that one is less clear.
>
> I actually agree that is should not be a remix, but that's not the way the
> term has been used so far.
>

I believe this was tightened [1] up by the tech board after
conversations [2] back in 2012 about Ubuntu Business Remix and the
policy surrounding the extension repos.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2012-February/001215.html
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2012-January/001177.html

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