Dhawal Doshy wrote:

I slightly differ on this.. why doesn't debian (being the upstream provider for ubuntu) take feedback from the ubuntu community as well? Redhat does this for fedora/centos/scientific.. they even invited centos developers to collaborate on EPEL (though things are still being worked out).

Debian do in my cases. See any package in PTS.

There is section called: 'Patches from Ubuntu' and yes, all patches in Ubuntu are available under: http://patches.ubuntu.com

In many cases, Ubuntu is also upstream for Debian packages (because some developers are working at Cannonical).

Ofcourse, Ubuntu has more artwork, shiny things than Debian.