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Subject: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.
From: a.starr.b () gmail ! com (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio)
Date: 2013-11-07 15:19:46
Message-ID: CAL6k_AyUoYy+eiXj9UatjFPdPfC979JrAkejDiFFz4numZVoqQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:13:21PM +0800, Ben Tinner wrote:
> > On Mon Nov 4 12:41:29 UTC 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > > Are you planning to get the necessary packages into >Ubuntu itself? That
> > > might help make maintenance a lot easier.
> >
> > The guys at MATE are currently attempting to upload the packages to Debian but as \
> > of now there is little progress into it.
> > The MATE repository have MATE packages for Ubuntu available, so I included the \
> > MATE repo for the packages.
> > Shall we pull all the MATE packages into the Ubuntu repo directly or we build the \
> > sources ourselves?
>
> It would be far superior to fix the problem with uploading to Debian
> rather than working around it by uploading directly to Ubuntu or by
> maintaining a separate repository. Unless there is a *lot* of effort
> available to deal with Ubuntu-local packaging, having the packages in
> Debian as well generally yields better results.
And there is in fact a team working on packaging MATE for Debian:
pkg-mate-team at lists.alioth.debian.org
-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething>
Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb>
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