On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > This might be too obvious, but: did you check whether Ubuntu/Scott would be > > willing to provide a per-maintainer indexed version on their > > patches.ubuntu.com? > > I asked him in February excately this. I don't think he mind that I > paste it here: > > "Unfortunately as you're probably aware, Debian insists that we don't > attribute Ubuntu packages to the Debian maintainer anywhere. Under this > agreement, we have to change the Maintainer field in our packages. > > One slight problem with this is that we don't have the Debian package > information at the point we generate that page, it's generated from the > Ubuntu package information (otherwise it would show packages that > existed in Debian, but not Ubuntu). > > In order to find the Debian maintainer, we'd have to have an additional > pass to extract that information -- which would actually be quite > expensive (unpacking 16,000 source packages every hour!)"
Hum, don't they have the original debian/control when doing the diff ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
