Martin, after our meeting I've started to analyze more in depth the issue of how to allow Debian derived "distributions" happily coexist with Debian itself, and I found out [0] that the topic is now much more developed than two years ago, when the AGNULA/DeMuDi project started.
According to the terminology defined in http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?CustomDebian and http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/debian-enterprise.org/technical.html Debian Multimedia is currently an internal Debian Subproject [0], which do not provide a Custom Debian Distribution, while AGNULA/DeMuDi is and external Debian Related Project, which creates a Derivative Debian Distro. Would it make sense to turn DeMuDi into the CDD created by the Debian Multimedia subproject? AFAIK this is what successfully happened between DebianEdu and Skolinux [2], which even moved/merged part of the CVS sources into the DebianEdu Alioth project. I think we could benefit a lot from their experience, and maybe it would be useful to start a new debian-cdd list, dedicated to common issues among Custom Debian Distributions, as strategies, policies, tools. bye, free ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [0] see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg02005.html [1] even though it doesn't appear in the official list of (sub)projects at http://www.debian.org/devel/ [2] see http://developer.skolelinux.no/index.html.en and the "CDD's in Development" section in http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?CustomDebian plus the announcement of the latest skolelinux release http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2004/debian-edu-200401/msg00000.html
