"Components" page should mention sources for universe
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Website - OBSOLETE |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The page http://
"In universe you can find almost every piece of open source software, and software available under a variety of less open licences, all built automatically from a variety of public sources."
AFAIK Debian is the only source where Ubuntu pulls automatically sources and rebuild them as binary packages (I might be wrong, I'm not very involved in Ubuntu, I'm mainly a Debian developer). The other packages (which are not in Debian but which are in universe) are prepared by the MOTU team and while they might upload packages prepared by third parties there's no automatic process here.
It would be nice to mention the sources used to pull automatically new universe packages. I consider this the logical extension of the bug #154274 that got just fixed (since the ubuntu-debian page points to this page when explaining that there are other sources than Debian for universe).
Thanks for your work.
Changed in ubuntu-website: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
This isn't really "universe" specific, because the majority of packages in other Ubuntu components (main/restricte d/multiverse) are also pulled automatically from Debian. It's true that there are probably fewer differences between the majority of universe packages and their debian equivalents than happens for the main component, but that isn't universally (ugh) true. In any case, the idea is that all Ubuntu packages get bug fixes from Debian, regardless of their component.