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Re: aptitude changelog says "new upstream release" ?



On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:51:27PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> The changelog entry for aptitude says "new upstream release."  I know 
> Debian is trying to be Kernel-neutral, but isn't aptitude a 
> Debian-native package which might happen to run on things like Redhat?

It just means the source and the packaging are kept separate.  In
general, a "new upstream release" means the source changed, whereas a
new Debian release means just the packaging changed.

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