[Popcon-developers] Debian derivatives guidelines: popcon

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-04-02 09:30 +0200, Paul Wise wrote:

> The derivatives guidelines[1] mention popcon[2] and suggest submitting
> to both popcon.debian.org and popcon.example.org.
>
> Can the popcon devs (CCed) please comment on this suggestion, is it
> appropriate to do that?
>
> Does anyone know of any distributions other than Ubuntu that have a
> popcon server and modify popcon to use it? The derivatives census
> indicates only that Ubuntu has a popcon server.
>
> Currently the Ubuntu popcon does not comply with this suggestion[3].
> The Ubuntu popcon server has about 20 times the submissions of Debian,
> do the popcon devs think that adding them is a good idea?

I'm not a popcon dev, but I think that adding Ubuntu would be a very bad
idea.  Ubuntu deviates *a lot* from Debian, and packages that are very
popular (or even required) in Ubuntu may not be popular in Debian at all
(upstart comes to mind, for instance).  Therefore, deciding which
packages to put on the CDs on popcon submissions from Ubuntu rather than
from Debian does not seem the right thing to me.

Regards,
        Sven