On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:41:58AM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 00:39, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The full quote is "We sync our packages to Debian regularly, because that > > introduces the latest work, the latest upstream code, and the newest > > packaging efforts from a huge and competent open source community. > > Without Debian, Ubuntu would not be possible." It should be obvious from > > the remainder of the sentence that it is talking about propagation of > > changes *from* Debian *to* Ubuntu. > > syncinc _to_ debian implies that changes are _pushed_ to Debian regularly, > whereas in actuallity they're simply made available for pull by Debian (in > most cases)
I am pleased to report to all who were confused or offended by the ambiguities in these quotations that Mark has clarified them both in the wiki already. > Considere the following: > - right now there are no Ubuntu changes to my package > - if Ubuntu suddenly does change my package for whatever reason, there's > absolutely no way I'll suddenly know to go check the patch page. The PTS already contains this information; if you want asynchronous notification, that should be easy to arrange within the PTS. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
