[Utnubu-discuss] Collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian on the Ubuntu side: a proposal

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Tue Jan 24 11:40:54 UTC 2006


On 24/01/06 at 11:16 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> CC: ubuntu-motu, because this touches current practice in universe packages.
> 
> On 1/24/06, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > > Understood, although there was no attempt to contact me in this case. I
> > > would certainly have considered the request.

[ Context for ubuntu-motu@: Hamish Moffatt regrets that a MOTU packaged a
new upstream version of xastir without contacting him ]

> > Again, I *personally* think that it would be better if MOTUs filed bugs
> > in the BTS in such cases. But it is not the current policy inside MOTU.
> 
> This is confusing (not to say not correct as written here). Currently,
> there is not any written or (semi) official 'policy' document for MOTU
> work at all. (or at least non that I'm aware of. I know LaserLock is
> working on one, but this particular point is TMBK not touched).

OK, I should probably have written "practice" instead of "policy".

> Current practice is that indeed bugs are filed in the debian bts, but
> every MOTU who touches a package decides on an individual basis if
> this bug is worth submitting to debugs.

The current practice inside MOTU, from my POV, is :
if (the MOTU considers that the bug is worth submitting to debbugs)
   if (the MOTU feels like reporting it)
      the bug is reported
   end
end

This is fine, since :
* not all Ubuntu changes are worth reporting to Debian (example: a
build-dep change to adjust to python2.4 is not)
* we don't want to force MOTUs to report bugs to Debian.

The goal of DCT is to remove the inner if, and relax the rules by
reporting changes which "might be of interest to Debian" in addition to
those which "surely are of interest to Debian".
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