RFD: make Raspbian a Distro in Launchpad

[Rolf Leggewie]

Raspbian is a distro, just like Ubuntu and Debian. It is registered in Launchpad as a project, like samba or other upstream projects. This makes it impossible to use many awesome Launchpad features, like looking at bugs in project X that affect Raspbian, etc. Wouldn't it make sense to register Raspbian as a Distro in Launchpad?

[peter green (plugwash)]

Do you know what is involved in converting from a "project" to a "distro" and whether there are any downsides to doing so? If it is converted are you voulenteering to go through the existing bugs and add package metadata to them?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I cannot see a downside to doing things right. I could drive this change if you want me to.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Wouldn't this add to the already HUGE confusion that there is about the raspbian image(/distro) made by the raspberrypi.org foundation?
I have already pointed a lot of bug reports to be reported at https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues as it wasn't an issue with the raspbian.org repo/project.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I understand the distinction between what is truly Raspbian, what is RPi and what is Debian isn't easy. I do not see though how doing the right thing and record Raspbian as a distro rather than a project would add to that problem, though. Project means upstream work. Raspbian is clearly a distro.