When should a package be ubuntu-versioned?

[Mike Bird]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 05:59, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:35, Mike Bird wrote:
> > 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?

That was a simplified version of a real-world example.

Appletalk on their server wouldn't talk to one of their old
workstations after upgrading from Hoary to Breezy, so we pinned
it back to the Hoary version.  Later they needed a newer
Subversion than Breezy provided.  They also have rules for Ruby
and Trac and some minor stuff.  In all, they have a few dozen
non-Breezy packages running on a Breezy foundation.

All of this can be done by regular pinning:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin
Our tools just make things a bit easier (in our environment).

--Mike Bird