Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.

2013-11-05 Thread Ben Tinner
On Mon Nov 4 12:41:29 UTC 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote: >Are you planning to get the necessary packages into >Ubuntu itself? That >might help make maintenance a lot easier. The guys at MATE are currently attemptingĀ to upload the packages to Debian but as of now there is little progress into it. T

Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.

2013-11-05 Thread Ben Tinner
On Mon Nov 4 12:41:29 UTC 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote: >Are you planning to get the necessary packages into >Ubuntu itself? That >might help make maintenance a lot easier. The guys at MATE are currently attemptingĀ to upload the packages to Debian but as of now there is little progress into it. T

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Daniel Hollocher
> > > > Do you think that Linux Mint is a vulnerable system ? Really ? > > https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules > > this is the list of packages it will never update, instead of just > integrating changes properly with the packagaes in the ubuntu ar

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.11.2013, 07:32 +0200 schrieb Nik Th: > I'm don't watch the conversation from the beginning , but I assume (in your > distro) you will keep the original repositories and official packages , > correct ? > I'm not a developer, thus I cannot help you with coding, but if you

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Robie Basak wrote: > It's fine to call out their security policy. That appears to be based on > fact. But I don't think it's reasonable to speculate by attacking them, > especially in their absence and without having an understanding of their > rationale. In no way

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:11:45AM -0600, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > Sounds like bad maintainers justifying being bad if you ask me. Please be respectful. The Ubuntu Code of Conduct applies on this list. It's fine to call out their security policy. That appears to be based on fact. But I don't think

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > It is unclear why Linux Mint disables all of their security updates although > to some degree they have tried to justify their disabling of kernel updates > by suggesting that such updates could make a system unstable and that normal > user