Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 10:02, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> This is fair. After all, that's what Free software is about. But I know >> for sure that "contributing back to Debian" stuff is 100% talk and 0% >> reality. > > There is at least one area where there is a substantial contribution from > people working on Ubuntu and that is Debian Installer. I also think that > X.Org maintenance has benefitted a lot from work done earlier for Ubuntu.
Let me add - security patches for packages with copies of xpdf code - a very much longed-for patch to build pdftex (in tetex-bin) against libpoppler instead of against its copy of xpdf code. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer