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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/24/2011 03:09 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Rackspace isn't doing their own packaging because of (lack of) Debian
>> support. If they did, they'd have realised almost immediately that the
>> packages actually build on Debian. They're doing it because there'll
>> supposedly be differences in the behaviour Ubuntu (or any other distro
>> for that matter) will want and what Rackspace will want from the
>> packages. I've becried this divergence countless times, but to no
>> avail.
>>
>> That cloudbuilders aren't using the packages either.. I don't really
>> know what to say about that.
> 
> Nobody's maintaining their own packaging because it's lots of fun, but
> we can't close shop every time someone decides to go and nerf the
> openstack packaging.  Like right now, the openstack Swift packages are
> broken for the OS cloudfiles deploys on and they're missing useful
> features cloudfiles uses.

And as we add more deployment/integration testing - I would very much
like to prevent that sort of thing from happening so that you can use them.

Monty