Re: Ok to mention ubuntu versions inside Debian archive?
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:23:30PM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:57:04PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > Package: xserver-xorg
> > > ...
> > > Version: 1:7.0.0
> > > ...
> > > Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3)
> >
> > Is this considered OK these days?
>
> If it helps people who mix packages (bear in mind that people will
> certainly have taken Ubuntu packages to run on Debian, as they have been
> doing since the 6.8.x days; as Knoppix and basically everyone else did
> with 4.3.0-0ds*), then I don't see why not.
>
> It's not optimal, but if 0ubuntu3 rather than 1 helps a few people, then
> I don't see the harm.
In addition it's an acknowledgement of where I derived the packages from,
and an effort to help with future collaborations between Debian and Ubuntu
in the X packages. As Daniel says, there's no real harm in keeping the
references there and if it helps make the packages better I'd rather keep
it.
- David Nusinow
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