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[News] How Bugfixes in One Distro Resolves Other Distros' Bugs Too

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Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs

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| The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, 
| has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the 
| operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.  
| 
| Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial arm, Canonical, said that most 
| users expect developers of open-source distributions to fix bugs affecting 
| the operating systems, even if the flaws were introduced in groups of files 
| developed by other coders. Such groups of files are often referred to 
| as 'upstream' source code.    
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39440954,00.htm

A step closer to X Server 1.5.0:

X Server 1.4.99.904 Released

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| This morning the release manager for X.Org 7.4, Adam Jackson, had announced 
| the release of X Server 1.4.99.904. This is another development release -- 
| equivalent to a Release Candidate 4 -- before X Server 1.5.0 is ready for 
| X11R74.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjU1Ng

And another step towards 4.1:

KDE Commit-Digest: Issue 112: 25th May 2008

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| Marble gets "temperature" and "precipitation" maps, and a "stars" plugin. 
| More work on "fuzzy searches" in Digikam. Konqueror gets support for crash 
| session recovery and session management. Runners can now be managed using a 
| KPluginSelector-based dialog, and attention-blinking support in Plasma. 
| Various Plasma applets move around KDE SVN before the KDE 4.1 feature freeze 
| takes effect, with WebKit applet support moving into kdebase. SVG stuff from 
| WebKit starts to be integrated into KHTML.      
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http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-05-25/

There's this fallacy that many distros mean that bugs need to be fixed multiple
times, This is not correct. Cases of point below.


Recent:

Lucas Nussbaum: Ubuntu information on the Debian Package Tracking System and
the Developer Packages Overview

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| Users of Debian derivatives sometimes report bugs that are not reported in
| the Debian BTS, but that also affect Debian. It already happened a few times
| that looking at the Ubuntu bugs for my packages allowed me to fix an
| unreported bug in my Debian packages.
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http://swik.net/Ubuntu/Planet+Ubuntu/Lucas+Nussbaum
+Ubuntu+information+on+the+Debian+Package+Tracking+System+and+the+Developer+Packages+Overview/b7i12


Shuttleworth Acknowledges Ubuntu’s Debt to Debian

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| Historically, Debian users have shown a fair amount of jealousy towards
| Ubuntu. Martin F. Krafft, aka madduck, a well-known Debian developer, summed
| the reasons for these feelings in his analysis piece Ubuntu and Debian in May
| 2006.  
|
| According to Krafft, there are several major friction points between the two
| prominent Linux distributions. For example Debian “developers are largely
| unsatisfied with how Canonical/Ubuntu cooperates and ‘gives back’ to the
| Debian community. This, in turn, has lead to the “perception that
| Canonical/Ubuntu is taking advantage of Debian.”    
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http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/shuttleworth-acknowledges-ubuntus-debt-to-debian/


Debian and Ubuntu

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| I really hope that this sheds some light on the dependency that Ubuntu has on
| Debian. And really, I would *love* to see some activism on the Ubuntu
| community’s side to give more back to the Debian project. The farther Debian
| goes, the better Ubuntu gets - they only stand to benefit.
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http://www.robertpeaslee.com/index.php/debian-and-ubuntu/


Ubuntu giving back to Debian: facts and numbers!

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| I’ve always been annoyed by the discussions about “is Ubuntu really giving
| back to Debian?”.
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http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=271


The Heron takes flight

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| We all owe a great deal to the team who make Debian’s “unstable” repository
| possible, and of course to the upstream projects from GNOME and KDE through
| to the Linux kernel. We hope you will be proud of the condition in which we
| have carried your excellent work through to the users of Ubuntu.
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/147
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