Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Neither Ubuntu nor Debian do anything special to get hardware support
>> that is provided by the kernel proper and tools that neither group
>> created.
>
> That's not actually true. I do a lot of work in Ubuntu to add extra
> hardware support. All the code gets pushed upstream so will end up in
> Debian too, but Ubuntu's lack of a concept of package ownership makes it
> massively easier to do integration work - rather than filing half a
> dozen bugs and having to chase people up, I can just upload the
> packages. Given the amount of time I currently have available to me, I
> tend to choose the latter. If Debian had slightly less of a culture of
> "Keep your hands off my package", I'd do it here instead.
Feel free to improve my packages. I would like to have more people
involved.
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