Re: Debian maintainers and the Launchpad

2005-05-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:35:21AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > While this sounds like a very useful tool, AFAIK it is a proprietary > service (for now?), and I wonder whether this clashes with part two of > our social contract, at least with the spirit of it (as Debian obviously > did not write

Re: Debian maintainers and the Launchpad

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:09:27PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Allow me to explain a bit about the purpose of this application. > > This portion of the Launchpad application, when it is completed, will > provide a composite index of all of the packages available in Ubuntu and in > Debian, and l

Debian maintainers and the Launchpad

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > I think all other distributions based on Debian do change the Maintainer > field. If someone wishes to be a maintainer for Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, or > Gentoo, or Linspire, or RedHat, or ...), then they can apply with a > given distribution.