2009/5/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net>: > In <20090510233757.gb6...@ime.usp.br>, Rogério Brito wrote: >>On May 10 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >>> But linda, lintian, dpkg and some other tools are purely developed for >>> debian, and make no sense being released in another distribution. >>> quote --> >> >>Those packages are used by distributions like Ubuntu, for instance, and >>the wording of that part may leave newer maintainers puzzled. > > Use in other Debian-based systems is not always reason enough to make > something non-native. (Use in a non-Debian-based OS generally is.)
dpkg and friends version numbers in Ubuntu are released with "native ubuntu" version numbers. So really anyone who is using dpkg in their distribution is more correctly maintains his/her own native branch which is similar to debian one. I don't think debian wants to become universal upstream for e.g. dpkg and try to please *everyone* (just picture wishlist bugs against dpkg to nativly handle eggs and jars =0) ps. sorry if you get this twice...... -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org