Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 19:56 -0500, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > One final open-ended question is: which consumes more resources? > Duplicate packaging or backporting? No, the question is how is the Ubuntu project willing to spend its resources. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The solution would be to convince Ubuntu to branch from stable instead > of sid. The problem is that this creates a lot of work for Ubuntu > because they have to backport all of the desired bleeding-edge stuff. > However, Debian d

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-24 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Michael Gilbert wrote: > I've read a lot about the binary incompatibility concern between > Debian and Ubuntu. It is a design decision of ubuntu to ensure source code compatibility only. Binary compatibility to debian/stable is not a release goal. > I think that Ubuntu's motivation to provide the

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Michael Gilbert wrote: > First of all, I think it is useful to analyze Ubuntu's motivation -- > releasing well-integrated bleeding-edge software. The easiest way to > accomplish this goal is by branching from sid. This means that Ubuntu > libraries differ from the stable Debi