possible FQA: debian and Kubuntu compatibility; Xemacs

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:25, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:35 am, Rich Johnson wrote:
> > As of right now, if you did this, you could do 1 of 3 things to your
> > system:
> >
> > 3. Broken!
>
> In my experience, this is the likely outcome of going in the other
> direction. Mixing Kubuntu with Debian is a train wreck.  Does mixing Debian
> with Kubuntu lead to the same train wreck from the opposite direction?  I
> don't know, but I don't plan to try it.
>
By design Ubuntu distros are source compatible with Debian, but not 
necessarily binary compatible.

http://www.ubuntu.com/support/faq#head-6fb53908d9c87eb506d6d36c99cd9936ceffa8fa

http://tinyurl.com/qkj8t

So, if you need a package in Debian that isn't in Ubuntu, pull the source and 
build it yourself...

Scott K