On Friday 28 July 2006 19:37, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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.
Debian has well defined procedure, and as you know it is called NMU. I don't know if you can mess around with other maintainer packages' in Ubuntu, but it is certainly better to have comply with a widely agreed procedure when doing so. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
