Am Mittwoch 25 Mai 2005 22:03 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:22:57PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > I'm sorry this bug didn't come to a resolution for you. I believe > > Ubuntu is a project with some very admirable goals. It appears that > > binary compatibility with Debian has been sacrified though, and > > this makes sharing work between the two projects difficult. > > It's not clear to me how you have come to this conclusion. The > sharing of work betweeen open source projects takes place exclusively > at the source code level: that's the reason why the openness of the > source code is essential for this type of collaboration. > > Why do you feel that mixing binary packages between Debian and Ubuntu > is important for collaboration? In my experience, it makes > collaboration more difficult, by making bugs difficult to reproduce. > > Would you mind sharing your rationale? To what extent is it based on > Ian Murdock's claims, and to what extent on your own experience or > reasoning?
Hmm . Since I'm not a programmer at all, It's a bit magical to me, that azureus works with the 64bit binary package from the azureus sf.net downloadpage, but *not* with the debian/sid package on amd64/hoary. O.K. there is now the transition of the libs and binary packages to the gcc-4.0 in breezy, but I'm pretty sure, that the libc6 from Breezy that I'm using isn't affected by this transition, because it's somewhat less or more than 3 weeks old now. So, I think (from a absolutely non-programmer point of view) it's not a binary compatibility issue. My opinion is, that there are some points in Ian Murdock's complaints, because I rarely had these experiences with a *heavily* mixed sarge/sid system in the last 3 years. But, as I said: I'm not a programmer at all! And I have some complaints about the ubuntu bugtracking system... It's more than weird, if you're used to debian bugtracking... Maybe it's a habit, but I found malone real strange. Yes, I'm used to use mail. Kind regards Gerhard Gaußling
