Hallo, James Stone hat gesagt: // James Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:41:44PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hallo, > > Gavin Stevens hat gesagt: // Gavin Stevens wrote: > > > > > Don't forget that Ubuntu is based on Debian "unstable". > > > > Is it? I was under the impression that the packages in Ubuntu that > > were directly taken from Debian, were more of the testing flavour. > > No, definately based primarily on Debian SID (how else would the > Ubuntu packages be so bleeding edge??). Well, Ubuntu packages aren't always that bleeding edge in my experience. When I was running Ubuntu on my laptop (which now has been converted to plain Debian again, thank god), a number of the packages I use, notably blackbox, were actually lagging behind Debian testing and had bugs that were already fixed in Debian testing. I apt-got them from the respective Debian testing packages. But probably it's not really sensible to compare Ubuntu and Debian just from the release numbers. You're right: According to http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/relationship Ubuntu indeed is based on a snapshop of Debian unstable. But then it forks off while going for a release. In the remaining time both trees will become out of sync, and that may happen in both directions as it happend for my beloved blackbox: Debian's unstable version moved on, was fixed and entered testing while Ubuntu's snapshot-version was still from the older snapshot. Maybe blackbox wasn't that important to Ubuntu at that time. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
