Re: Why Ubuntu is different, was: Minutes of an Ubuntu-Debian discussion that happened at Debconf
madcoder@debian.org wrote:
>it is legitimate and legal and all what you want. but it also makes the
>cooperation between the two distribution a lot harder:
>
> * take the not so recent example of Xorg6.9. Ubuntu decided to switch
> to Xorg way sooner than debian. good for'em. as a result, you
> couldn't even build an ubuntu package on debian, because it lacked
> the necessary build-depends.
>
> * ubuntu having python2.4 by default since 1year+ also causes problems
> in that sense (even if one could argue that nothing really prevented
> debian to switch earlier)...
>
>and I guess there will still be numerous examples of that kind in the
>future.
Two great examples showing how Debian development has been lagging.
You cannot blame Ubuntu because Debian sucks.
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ciao,
Marco
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