At 10:50 AM -0500 9/27/06, Barry Finkel wrote:
> Is there 2.1.8 code that has not
> been ported to the Ubuntu 2.1.5-9?
Dunno. You need to ask the people who created the binary package you're using.
> Is there code that Ubuntu (or its
>"source" Debian) has written that has not been sent to Free Software
>Foundation?
Dunno. Again, you need to ask them.
> I do not know what was needed to "debianize" the code;
Neither do we.
> I would have
> assumed that the code from the FSF would run on any Linux without
> modification.
Should do, yes. But maybe they want files put in different places
than we do, or perhaps there are some other internal changes we don't
know about.
> If any mods were needed, the FSF developers would
> be told and integrate any needed changes into their source tree.
We would certainly take a look at any of their suggested changes and
see what makes sense to incorporate into our code base, yes.
> I could envision a few changes, maybe to install mailman into different
> directories to match the Debian standards, but 83 modules that are
> different seems to be too many.
I agree, that seems like a lot.
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