Code forks, RH & Debian (was Re: [OT] Process on which processor)
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 17:50, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:32:43PM -0800, nate wrote:
[snip]
> Be careful of applying the words "older" and "newer" to procps. There
> are two forks of its codebase, and I don't think their version numbers
> track each other.
>
> It wouldn't be the first time that Red Hat and Debian have ended up for
> various historical reasons on two different branches of a fork: man and
> man-db come to mind, but at least there the packages have different
> names.
Ok, I'll bite:
Why do Debian and RH track different branches of extremely common
"packages" like top and man?
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