There are a few packages where this is the case. It was recently discussed on the forums. They said that for Aumix, the source in the repos works fine, but the binary is junk. Qemu was also mentioned. I think in Qemu's case the maintainer grabbed from a broken CVS and packaged that without testing that it works first (it's a brick). <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2007 4:52 PM, Michael R. Head <<a href="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In tracking down a bug in logjam, I discovered that the source and binary packages are out of sync in the repository in 7.10/gutsy. I reported this as bug 17622[1], but I'm concerned about how this could have happened (as it's almost certainly not a logjam bug). It looks like the binaries were never built for anything other than sparc. There appears to have been plenty of time to get it built for gutsy, since the source package was put into the repository in May. What gives? [1] <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logjam/+bug/176622" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logjam/+bug/176622 </a> -- Michael R. Head <<a href="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</a>> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding" target="_blank">http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding </a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 <a href="http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com"> http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com</a> <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo