On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:07:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:51:37PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > > I'm slightly curious. If someone managed to get a package in Ubuntu, but > > then stopped maintaining it, why would encouraging him to get it into > > Debian make him more likely to maintain it? > > My observation is that Debian is more proactive about removing packages > that are no longer maintained than we are, and we semi-automatically > follow removals from Debian.
It occurs to me that the essential conflict here is between approaches that maximise the health of Ubuntu as a distribution, and approaches that maximise the productivity of individual newcomer developers. The goals overlap, but not perhaps as much as we might like. No, I don't know how to resolve this ... -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
