Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31, k keltezéssel 21.00-kor John Goerzen ezt írta:
> > Other taxonomist may also argue that Debian is an infrastructural
> > distribution, which is well suited to be the base of such "spoons".
> 
> Perhaps, but there are some issues with that.
> 
> In the ubuntu case in particular, I wish that they would be more
> proactive in sending their patches to the Debian maintainers. 

> Sometimes they are changing things for some unique "ubuntu way". 

Okay, these were the problems.

And here is a good part of the solution:

> Finally, I would like to see many more developers putting their
> packages a distributed version control system like Arch or, better
> yet, Darcs.  

If everyone in the food chain, at least down from the debian maintainer,
would use that, it would greatly simplify problems with patch
management. Just I highly doubt it is doable.

It could also help to apply upper stream patches for spoons while
sticking to their spoonerisms ;), and even not giving them back in
patches again and again.

I guess that we, as Debian developers have no ground to criticise
downstream for doing things in their own way, provided they don't keep
pushing things deemed unacceptable.