]] Adrian Bunk > Hi, > > looking at something where I worked on the upstream implementation ages ago: > https://sources.debian.org/src/liferea/1.12.4-1/debian/patches/ubuntu-example-feeds.patch/ > > It is a common problem that users should be able to get started quickly > after installing a program. > > When liferea is started by a user for the first time, the default feedlist > in the locale of the user gets installed as feedlist for the user. > > It is clear why a derivative, especially a brand-aware one like Ubuntu, > wants to change this feedlist. > > And it is also clear why this change cannot be applied in Debian. > > One obvious solution if vendor-specific series files get outlawed in > Debian would be to switch from ubuntu.series to manual patching in > debian/rules based on dpkg-vendor(1).
Or it would mean that Ubuntu would carry a XubuntuY version and do manual (or automatic, based on whatever tooling they have available) merges from Debian, marking it clearly as a different work. [...] > The whole underlying notion that there would be one source tree that > gets built is also flawed. This is not true in all cases, and can > never be. We are not talking about what's built. We're talking about what's unpacked. It's well understood that what's unpacked is not always what's built; build processes can (and do) all kinds of transformations and is understood to be executable code. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
