On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:14:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> writes: > > Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes: > >> Maybe with some tagging as to the origin derivative, so that we can > >> handle cases where that data isn't useful? There's no guarantee that > >> the Ubuntu package has much of anything to do with the Debian package > >> of the same name; it might not even be the same software. They're > >> *normally* the same, but we could get some weird artifacts. > > Well, ubuntu is quite good with tagging the version. So anything > > reported from popularity-contest 1.48ubuntu1 is from ubuntu. :) > This is true for packages that Ubuntu has imported from Debian and then > updated, but I don't believe this is true for packages that are introduced > directly into Ubuntu and then separately introduced directly into Debian > later. It is not /universally/ true for such packages, yes. Third-party software that's uploaded to Ubuntu before it's uploaded to Ubuntu will generally still have ubuntu-annotated version numbers, but there are exceptions. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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