[Mono-list] ubuntu packaging

[Daniel Hughes]

Recently banshee turned on opt in statistic gathering, the first set
of results are in, and it turns out that the overwhelming majority of
Banshee users run it on Ubuntu. This possibly unexpected result is
causing the banshee team to rethink their strategy regarding
deployment to Ubuntu. Including the importance of providing same days
packaging for ubuntu.

Banshee/BuildVendor:
   Users:                   519
   292  : Ubuntu 9.10
   51   : Ubuntu 9.10 c519a80
   33   : source-tarball
   25   : Banshee / openSUSE_11.2
   22   : git-checkout
   20   : banshee-project.org OSX 10.5+ i386/Intel
   16   : Gentoo/banshee/1.5.4
   14   : Ubuntu lucid (development branch) c519a80
   7    : Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
   6    : Ubuntu 9.10 8fef2fb
   4    : Foresight Linux
   4    : Ubuntu 9.04
   4    : Ubuntu 9.10 0328ab7
   4    : Ubuntu 9.10 ffc9f0f
   3    : Ubuntu 9.10 424a345
   3    : Ubuntu 9.10 d885c99
   2    : ArchLinux
   2    : Banshee:Alpha / openSUSE_11.2
   2    : Ubuntu lucid (development branch) 8fef2fb
   1    : Fedora12-1.5.4-0.1.fc12.aa
   1    : Fedora12-1.5.4-1.fc12
   1    : Fedora13-1.5.4-1.fc13
   1    : Fedora14-1.5.4-1.fc14

This is only a small sample size, and does not necessarily correlate
to what operating systems mono is used on. However if it did would
that cause the mono project to reconsider its decision to not provide
packaging for Ubuntu?

I know the reasons why mono does not provide ubuntu packaging have
been discussed on this mailing list in the past. However would it make
a differences if it turned out that most mono users ran ubuntu?