Ubuntu getting overbranded?

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:32:21PM +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> Ubuntu is getting really great, but it's also getting really overbranded,
> every package are named package-1.0-123ubuntu123, which is in other
> distribution have only -i386 suffix.

You seem to be somewhat confused. The above is not branding, it's
distinguishing. It translates as package-1.0, debian's patched version
123, ubuntu's patches (atop debian's) version 123. The "other
distributions" don't all have -i386: clearly in this case, debian has a
suffix of 123.

Again, it's not branding, it's bookkeeping. Many packages have no
"ubuntu" bit: those packages are either very ubuntu-specific (will
likely never appear in debian) or no Ubuntu developers have decided to
add to what Debian and upstream have already accomplished for that
particular package version.

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