On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 17:14, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > > On 2022-04-16 16:49:17 +0200, Marco Sulla wrote: > > Furthermore, you didn't answer my simple question: why does the > > security update package contain metadata about Debian patches, if the > > Ubuntu security team did not benefit from Debian security patches but > > only from internal work? > > It DOES NOT contain metadata about Debian patches. You are > misinterpreting the name "debian". The directory has this name because > the tools (dpkg, quilt, etc.) were originally written by the Debian team > for the Debian distribution. Ubuntu uses the same tools. They didn't > bother to rename the directory (why should they?), so the directory is > still called "debian" on Ubuntu (and yes I know this because I've built > numerous .deb packages on Ubuntu systems).
Ah ok, now I understand. Sorry for the confusion. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list