On Sunday 11 January 2009 15:22:25 MJ Ray wrote: > Hendrik Weimer <hend...@enyo.de> wrote: > > It is a fact that Debian more often rejects packages present in other > > distros than the other way around. Which I believe is a good sign, > > BTW. > > Is that a fact? Where's the evidence? A quick web search didn't find > a good study, but it might exist.
I doubt there is such a stufy, but you may want to look at the recently uploaded 'whohas' package, and ask it for some possibly problematic packagenames to see whether any other distro has it. > I found some evidence that Debian > rejects packages present in Ubuntu, but that's a special case and only > one related distribution. ... like codeblocks package for example, which got recently rejected in NEW, but I'm not sure exactly why, though code dups and unfinished debian/copyright might be the reasoning behind that. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
