Re: Debian Woody -> Ubuntu Dapper?

Mario Vukelic wrote:

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:29 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
This "Ubuntu is not Debian" mantra is getting old.

For all the parts that really matter, here, Ubuntu _is_ Debian.

Library dependencies and gcc versions don't matter? You can get into
nasty dependency issues. They would be possible to resolve with careful
use of apt-get -f install and dpkg --force-*, but not recommended
without knowledge of the dpkg/apt

Of course they matter. And when packages are properly built, library
dependencies are handled properly.

There's no
reason to assume that you would get broken packages _going to
breezy_.

When I sidegraded from woody to warty or hoary (can't remember), I had

True. And then a great deal of effort went into ensuring that, in future,
Ubuntu packages would always have version numbers greater than the
corresponding Debian ones.

--
derek


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