In <20090722224953.ga29...@codelibre.net>, Roger Leigh wrote: >On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:19:51AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Debian doesn't *create* much software.[1] They do a lot of packaging >> and bug-wrangling, but Debian depends on upstream being available to add >> features, write new software, and fix non-packaging non-security bugs. >> >> [1] Technically, Debian doesn't create any software, but many Debian >> Developers do create software either in their role as DDs or as part of >> other projects. > >I disagree here. Debian is upstream as well as distributor for quite >a lot of software.
If by "quite a lot" you mean "less than 5% of main", then yes. That's just going off of the number of packages that use native packaging, so it has flaws. Some "upstream == Debian" packages are non-native, some native packages don't have Debian as upstream. Let me know if you can think of a better (scriptable) way to determine if a package has Debian as upstream. >I write software specifically for Debian as a >Debian Developer (schroot, sbuild and other bits). I'd say that those >were created by Debian, as is all software created by DDs in their >project role. Debian did not remunerate those developers for that specific effort, nor does it (as an organization) hold any legal claim to the software. That's all I meant by "Debian doesn't create much software". I wasn't trying to discount the software written by DDs to satisfy Debian needs. (/me loves my cowbuilder setups.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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