Re: Debian base mint.
Hello,
Ubuntu is supposed to be SOURCE compatible with Debian [0], so you could
backport a given package to Debian.
It is a matter of pleasant coincidence when BINARY packages are compatible.
Fortunately most of times, when using an older-than-Debian version.
Regards.
Andre Felipe
[0]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth#What%20about%20binary%20compatibility%20between%20distributions?
> Debian is compatible with Ubuntu, or at least many Debian packages are since
Ubuntu
> is based on Debian. Perhaps they mean can you simply replace your atp/sources.list
> with repos from Ubuntu if you're running Mint Debian.
>
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