"submission rules page" proposal number 2

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Mon Jan 23 15:44:00 GMT 2006


On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:14:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 23 12:58, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:43:56AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> >
>> >>A package released in Ubuntu (like "warty") is a stable Linux
>> >>distribution. But these packages are direcly derived from Debian
>> >>"unstable" release category.
>> >
>> > So, presumably, ubuntu has a package page which you can refer to when
>> > sending an ITP here.
>> 
>> Good. Since Debian category "testing" is below "unstable" (aka Ubuntu), 
>> can we conclude the case of Debian as follows:
>> 
>>     - stable, testind:  Accepted
>>     - unstable: only if it is found from released Ubuntu.
>
>Why don't you just point to Ubuntu instead?

Yes.  Which is what I meant by "ubuntu has a package page".

Debian's unstable page is not adequate.

cgf



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