I have a new project hosted at launchpad.net. My project can be useful for both: Ubuntu and Debian. However, I can't find a documentation to start host my project at launchpad.net and get my package mirrored back to Debian.
Thanks in advance.
Why isn't Metasploit in Ubuntu's software repositories?
More broadly, on what basis is software chosen or not to be added to the official Ubuntu repositories? Who takes those decisions? etc.
Is there any way to get source diffs between a locally-installed package and its updated one? This will be useful to check exactly which parts have been fixed, changed or added.
For example, say you have the linux-libc-dev package installed on your system and
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
shows
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-libc-dev
but you want to check, before upgrading it, the exact changes that have been made compared to your local version of the same package.
How can we do it?
A while ago there was talk of moving all (or at least some?) of the packaging effort to bzr branches on launchpad. I seem to remember there were a number of benefits mentioned, such as making it easier for new developers/packagers to contribute.
Can anyone update me on whether this happened and what the benefits would be? (I might have got completely the wrong end of the stick on this, so feel free to correct me...)
