Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/11/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, >> >> while pretending to cooperate. >> > >> > Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian >> > do? What steps could Ubuntu and Debian reasonably take to improve >> > cooperation? >> >> Ubuntu could report in the BTS all the bugs it finds, and submit >> patches via the BTS. > > What about bugs which are only applicable in ubuntu due to different > depending packages? Do you really want to track all problems of a > package in ubuntu within the debian bts? I assume not.
No. I want the Ubuntu maintainer to make a judgment about whether the bug applies or not. > For bugs applicable to both debian and ubuntu, I usually do file bugs > are in the debian bts, as many other ubuntu users and developers also > do. What do you expect more? I want Ubuntu to promise to do so. That would constitute cooperation. >> Ubuntu could find a way to do its own bug triage on packages for its >> users, rather than leaving Debian maintainer fields unmodified. > > This is an old discussion with no real result. If the Maintainer field > was changed, then ubuntu would be blamed for stealing credits from the > original maintainer, something we don't want either. Yeah, because the only way to document credit is in the Maintainer: field. It's a shame there are no other files anywhere in the package which could be modified. Heck, Ubuntu could even add a "X-Debian-Maintainer:" field. But no, that isn't done. Feh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
