From: "John Beamish" 

More here:
http://blog.madduck.net/debian/2006.05.24-ubuntu-and-debian

"A major point of friction I've gathered from many (Debian) sides stems
 from the fact that many developers are largely unsatisfied with how
Canonical/Ubuntu cooperates and "gives back" to the Debian
community: essentially, at the moment all we get are monolithic patches
describing the differences between Debian packages and their Ubuntu
counterparts. Even though Mark has claimed that the patches should be
modular if the underlying package uses a modular package management system
(such as dpatch), this does not seem to be the case at first glance (c.f.
e.g. squid). You have to look inside the monolithic patch to note that its
changes are compartementalised into dpatch files."


On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:42:41 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:


> Yup you could look on it as a layer cake
>
> 1)At the base is Linux kernel & std userspace stuff common to most
> distros
> 2) The main distro (debian RH etc) Do most of the pacakging & testing
> 3) A Meta distro - e.g. Ubuntu takes debian as it's starting point
> rather than (1)
> 4)A meta-meta distro i.e one that takes ubuntu as it's starting point.

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