[IAEP] Packaging thread summary

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:29:21PM +1800, David Farning wrote:
>There has recently been a rather long packing thread on this list.
>
>First, a couple of observations:
>The goal of Sugar Labs is to create a _great_ learning platform.
>Sugar Labs can _not_ accomplish that goal alone; we need a strong
>ecosystem to distribute and deploy the platform.
>Sugar Labs does not have the authority to tell anyone to do any thing.
>
>Because of this, I would recommend that, because of difference in the
>packaging objective of Debian and Ubuntu, the Ubuntu packages should
>fork their packaging efforts from the current Debian efforts with the
>intention of pushing the fork upstream into Debian experimental as
>soon as possible.

The recent thread really was mostly explaining status quo and insisting 
on clearing out misconceptions. I believe that there was no strong[1] 
disagreement on how to handle things, after all.

(I admit above is a bold statement - please do complain if you disagree)

Ubuntu already forked several weeks ago (if not more, and the fork is 
expected to only be temporary. I believe we all look forward to that!


>This thread does belong on ieap because it directly faces the quality 
>of our product in the hands of end users and the process used to 
>generate that product.

Some of it does, yes. I however consider some of it relevant only for 
the Alioth team (which still consist of both Debian and Ubuntu people 
even if its packaging is currently used mostly by Debian).


 - Jonas


[1] Luke is enthusiastic and frustrated (as I am too) that his attempts 
at cracking my mysterious routines haven't carried fruit yet. But he is 
also relatively new, so I dare say that his arguments did not carry much 
weight.

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