Re: debian and ubuntu

[Jeff Zhang <idealbsd@gmail.com>]

2009/4/26 Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>

2009/4/26 Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com>:

> I prefer debian whenever I want to use packages that (in ubuntu) belong to
> the universe category. I find that in my personal experience, packages in
> debian main seem more reliable than ubuntu universe.
>
> I find that I rather often want to have some package installed that does not
> belong to ubuntu's main repository, but do belong to debian's main
> repository.

Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian.
should i use dpkg -i or alien?

rebuild the deb files using foo.dsc and so on from ubuntu