Leeching among distributions? [LWN.net]

Leeching among distributions?

Posted Feb 27, 2007 13:49 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: they should just bite the bullet. by drag
Parent article: Fedora 7 release delayed

I am not saying that Fedora should use debian's repositories.
I am saying that they should just leech as much as possible off of debian. Following the policies and practices and standards.

Don't worry, they are leeching. Look at the changelogs for the Fedora packages, they often credit patches to Debian, and I'm sure it is the other way around too. Besides, Fedora's policy is to push for upstream changes where feasible, so everybody benefits.

Getting the packages from one system to build on the other is hard, getting them seamlessly integrated is much harder still. Yes, it is manual work. Stuff like Linux Standard Base help in creating some order among distributions, sure.

OTOH, Debian's performance WRT releases is dismal, to say the least... Fedora has managed to crank out 6 releases in a pretty short timeframe, mostly not too far from schedule. Debian should learn from Fedora here... so it is not that Debian's process is vastly superior either.

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