On Thu, 31 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: > I asked him in February excately this. I don't think he mind that I > paste it here: > > "Unfortunately as you're probably aware, Debian insists that we don't > attribute Ubuntu packages to the Debian maintainer anywhere. Under this > agreement, we have to change the Maintainer field in our packages. > > One slight problem with this is that we don't have the Debian package > information at the point we generate that page, it's generated from the > Ubuntu package information (otherwise it would show packages that > existed in Debian, but not Ubuntu). > > In order to find the Debian maintainer, we'd have to have an additional > pass to extract that information -- which would actually be quite > expensive (unpacking 16,000 source packages every hour!)"
This has probably changed since they keep the old maintainer field in a separate field. Furthermore they started storing/generating other (useful) patches in http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/ so they probably regularly process the Debian packages too. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
