OT - Re: [Utnubu-discuss] porting pyalsaaudio from Utnubu

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:49:15PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Well. The Ubuntu Masters of the Universe do not generally see their  
> job in getting packages into Debian, too. Some of them bother to file  
> a RFP/ITP in Debian, but as most of them are no DDs they rely on  
> support of Debian developers. On the other hand there are universe  
> uploaders which do only upload to Ubuntu and do not seem to bother  
> about Debian at all.

It would be interesting to know why there are Universe maintainers
(non-Canonical employees) who are not DDs.. why do they chose to
contribute to Ubuntu rather than Debian?

> Universe looks more like uploading new packages directly into it  
> instead of first adding them to Debian and syncing back. It would be  
> Debian's task, in this case Utnubu's, to setup something with syncs  
> such additions in Ubuntu back into Debian. It's just that those new  

I'm not sure if that is better than finding someone to maintain the
package in Debian directly.

Hamish
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