On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:43:13AM -0500, Craigevil wrote: > This is rather strange and disturbing a Ubuntu package in Debian. Since I do > not choose to run *buntu but Debian Sid, I feel the maintainers should > rename the package. What's next the *buntu desktop package? > > Package update-manager > * testing (gnome): GNOME application that manages software updates > 0.42.2ubuntu22-5: all > * unstable (gnome): GNOME application that manages apt updates > 0.42.2ubuntu22-7: all > 0.41.1.dfsg+CVS20051105-2: kfreebsd-i386 This has been brought up on the debian-devel mailing list. I think the issue with this particular package is that Ubuntu is considered the upstream developer and so that is how they have versioned their package. But I agree with you that the version number should be changed before being included in Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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