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[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/6/2 Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 05/31/2011 12:41 AM, Chuck Short wrote:
>> As much as I would to keep the openstack packaging diff between Ubuntu
>> and Debian to a minimum, we are definitely going to be making changes
>> to the debian packaging for Ubuntu and creating a delta between the
>> two packages.
>
> Well, currently isn't it the opposite way? Eg: me trying to maintain the
> Debian package out of the Ubuntu one, and trying to keep the delta as
> small as possible?

That sounds ideal!

>> There are several reasons why we will be doing this:
>> - Openstack promotion to main - in oneiric we are going to be promoting
>>   openstack to main. Based on the feedback we receive from the main
>>   inclusion team we are going to make some changes to the debian
>>   packaging.
>
> See above. It's opposite way. You're going to use the Ubuntu packaging
> proposed by Soren, and I'll derive from that in Debian.

This sounds perfect!

In fact, there's no policy in Ubuntu that mandates that "ubuntu" must
be in the version string, even if the package isn't synced from
Debian. If we were to drop that (and just use Debian-style
versioning)) and you could commit directly to the packaging trunk, I
think we could manage without any delta at all and you could simply
sync the source package directly from Ubuntu. I think this would make
for an excellent example of a different way of collaborating between
Ubuntu and Debian.

> As said above, my remarks are just for Debian bug reports: I wanted them
> to go in this list, but it's not possible currently, unless this list
> becomes an open post one, which was my request... Nothing more, nothing
> less! So comments about delta of the packaging aren't that much relevant...
>
> Thomas
>
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