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Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian



* Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> [2007-05-01 11:21]:
> Another approach for identifying packages to be updated in Debian to
> newer upstream releases is by comparing Debian with Ubuntu.  Here is a
> list of packages that are newer in Ubuntu than in Debian, grouped by
> maintainer:
> http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/outdated.html

The first package in your list shows that you're not handling epochs
properly.  1.0~rc1-13 vs 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.  Debian isn't out of date
here.  You need to ignore epochs.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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