On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 14:40 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2016-04-26 14:05:44) > > > > > > A while back, I made a list of popular packages in Ubuntu that were > > missing in Debian/main. Just for fun, I created the list again > > today. > > It look at all packages with more than 5000 votes in the Ubuntu > > popularity contest results, and compare the packages to Debian > > main. > Interesting. > > Here's the list, stripped of... > > * libraries > * packages ending in -common > * kernels available in different version > * firmware available under different name > * contrib/non-free stuff > * english locale data embedded in regular package [...]
Please map these back to *source* packages and then compare with source
packages in Debian.
Then you would see that, for example, busybox-initramfs is not really
missing from Debian (it's an extra binary built from busybox, while in
Debian the regular busybox binary package provides binaries for the
initramfs).
Ben.
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