Doing Debian package maintenance under Warty

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:27:50PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:

> Hi, /dev/elopers...

Welcome!

> As all "27 official Ubuntu maintainers" (if that information is still
> correct)

That information is not (nor has it ever been) correct.  The press seem to
get this wrong without exception.

> are Debian maintainers, too, this should be a common thought.  Do you
> really have two installations? Or have you quit developing for Debian?

I use a chroot for building binary packages for Debian, as do some others.

> It's not that I wouldn't have the space and bandwidth for a second
> partition. Just if Warty would provide everything then it would be easier.
> Actually it seems a little weird to contribute to a distribution you don't
> even use as your main installation. :) And most of the work I do is not
> package maintenance but writing documentation, managing servers etc.

What do you find to be lacking in Ubuntu?

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 - mdz