附錄 A. 衍生產品

Debian 專案充分認識到衍生產品分配的重要性，並積極支援所有相關方之間的合作。這通常涉及合併最初由衍生資料分配開發的改進，以便每個人都能受，並減少長期維護工作。

This explains why derivative distributions are invited to become involved in discussions on the debian-derivatives@lists.debian.org mailing-list, and to participate in the derivative census. This census aims at collecting information on work happening in a derivative so that official Debian maintainers can better track the state of their package in Debian variants.

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