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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by kbenson on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:00PM (#16017014)
Ah, yes. It's entirely possibly I missed the point. :)

Although repackaging upstream can be a fuzzy concept. E.g. Ubuntu's early days. They've always repackaged Debian packages, but I believe there was less differentiation in the beginning, before Ubuntu has many of its own initiatives and projects.

Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by jldugger on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @06:45PM (#16019109)
Even now, Ubuntu releases start largely by forking debian unstable.