On Monday 17 January 2011 12:33:25 T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:26:52 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > It is totally unsupported and may break everything but every time we've > > converted a system from Ubuntu to Debian in this way it has worked fine. > > Most important underlying requirement is the compatibility (e.g. glibc, > etc). > > The convoluted Ubuntu versioning always makes my head spin. Does anyone > have some kind of rule of thumb of which Ubuntu versions are compatible > with Debian testing/sid? There isn't one. Compatibility with Debian is wonderful when it occurs, but it is not a goal of the Ubuntu release process / team. Mixing Debian and Ubuntu packages isn't supported by either set of developers; but if APT / DPkg doesn't complain about missing dependencies, you are most likely okay, especially if the libraries in the dependency chain have symbols files generated and shipped in their binary packages. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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