Collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu

Ubuntu showed up in September 2004, a Debian derivative, that proved to be extremely popular. Ubuntu owes its existence to Debian, but there are philosophical differences and (sometimes) binary incompatibilities between the two.

Here's a look at how the two projects are working at improving this relationship. Fabio Tranchitella has written a small script to track the differences between Ubuntu and Debian packages. The Ubuntu wiki has the UbuntuForDebianDevelopers wiki page that looks at the differences between the projects and looks at how Debian developers can address concerns, get patches and minimize the differences between packages.

The most significant effort is the Utnubu project, which was announced over a year ago. This is a Debian Project aimed at improving the relationship between Ubuntu and Debian and, in particular, taking the best of Ubuntu back to Debian. The Utnubu Team has created mailing lists, an SVN repository and other resources to help with this goal.

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