On 11/02/2008, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@???> wrote:
> On måndagen den 11 februari 2008, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:01:21 +0000, "Peter Bowyer" <peter@???>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >On 07/02/2008, Marc Haber <mh+exim-users@???> wrote:
> > >> Unfortunately, Ubuntu does not remove the references to the Debian
> > >> support lists after taking Debian's work and republishing it
> > >> rebranded.
> > >
> > >What, then, are Ubuntu Exim users to do when they need support for
> > >their package that was built by the Debian project?
> >
> > The package was not built by the Debian project. Ubuntu takes Debian,
> > makes undocumented changes[1], re-builds the packages and ships them
> > as their own product.
>
> I'm not saying that Ubuntu shouldn't provide their own support for all the
> packages they ship, but as I've pointed out several times before, any diff
> between the Debian and Ubuntu versions of a package should be available from
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim4.html; currently there is none.
> Furthermore, I expect the Ubuntu folks to document their changes in
> changelog.Debian. Unfortunately, there may be differences in other packages
> that may make problems on Ubuntu unreproducible on Debian.
Knowing little about Ubuntu (or Debian, for that matter)... what
should 'we' who support the upstream package be saying to Ubuntu users
who show up here for support, then? I wonder if a wiki page is needed
that we can point people at.
Peter
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Peter Bowyer
Email: peter@???
