[IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:25:20PM +1800, David Farning wrote:
>The debianEdu packages are also upstream to our Ubuntu packages.

No.

As distributions, Debian is upstream of debian-edu, and Debian is 
upstream of Ubuntu.

As packages, debian-edu uses the Debian Sugar packages as-is, whereas 
Ubuntu recompile them from Debian sources (mildly patched to match their 
slightly different needs and policies, and in some cases further local 
development).

Debian-edu is working towards becoming a "Debian Pure Blend", which 
means it then _is_ (a subsection of) Debian. But even then it is a 
different subsection than sugar, so the "upstream" of Ubuntu will still 
be Debian, not debian-edu.


  - Jonas

Debian developer, also working with debian-edu.

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