When should a package be ubuntu-versioned?

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi,

On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:35, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 03:30, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > At a guess this would be being caused by the shlibs stuff etc? e.g.
> > build time dependancy making
> >
> > [Not saying this is where the bug is, this isn't really a bug, I guess
> > you shouldnt be relying on these packages being *exactly* the same down
> > to the letter - what do your tools do?]
>
> People use mixed Debian/Ubuntu package loads.  It's not always
> easy, but it's usually doable.  However, having two packages
> with identical names and versions but different content and
> dependencies confuses our tools and would probably confuse apt.
>

Well if someone manages to grow peaches on an apple tree, then I could 
understand why someone is mixing, but as Martin wrote, debian binary packages 
are very different from ubuntus binary packages. So if you do mix up them, 
you are on your own. No support.

> These tools manage packages across Debian, Fedora, Redhat, and
> Ubuntu systems.  They're useful for migrating, and have a rule-
> -based substitute for pinning e.g. "Start with Breezy but give
> me the Appletalk stuff from Hoary and the Subversion stuff from
> Dapper."

Why should someone wants to do this?

reagards, and have a happy new year

\sh