On 12/03/2011 05:33 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> wrote: >> - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in >> contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure >> out what they did and why and if it makes sense. > > From a quick look at the package, it seems to me that this was done in > order for Canonical to not have to provide support for the ofono and > libgypsy build depends. geoclue is in Ubuntu main. Packages in main > also pull their build depends into main. There is an implication of > some level of support from Canonical for packages in main. So this is > not something that should really interest Debian.
It should as it means that it will be a PITA to find patches which were applied in Ubuntu and should be applied in Debian, too - or it means that we'll just recreate the same patches as they are hidden somewhere in the mess Ubuntu made without talking to anybody. Exactly that is the kind of bullshit why a lot of Debian people hate what Ubuntu does. Thanks for wasting your and our time instead of just talking to the people who maintain a package you want to change. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eda5080.9010...@bzed.de
