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[Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Soren Hansen wrote:
> 2011/6/2 Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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.

Indeed. I'm pretty sure Stefano would really like that example :)

So all we need to make this happen is setting up an open-post (and
therefore non-Launchpad) ML for the debian/ubuntu packagers group ? I'm
pretty sure we can get something setup on lists.ubuntu.com, if everyone
agrees. openstack-debian-packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack