| Brian Nelson 2006-01-18, 5:56 pm |
| Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com> writes:
> On 1/18/06, Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
>
> Oh. There might be a misunderstanding: No binary package is taken from
> debian, only source packages. This means that EVERY package is being
> rebuilt in ubuntu on buildds, including arch: all packages. The output
> of apt-cache shows the field 'Origin' to indicate that this is not a
> package built on debian systems.
>
> If I understand your proposal correctly, you propose to introduce
> binNMU like versioning on ALL nondiverged packages (again, the source
> package is identical!). This seem not feasible because of practical
> problems.
What exactly are these practical problems? I don't see how Ubuntu had
no problem solving the problem of rebuilding *all* Debian packages, but
can't automate making some simple changes to the package before the
build.
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