Wrong version for non-native packages

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 00:11:56 GMT 2010


On Sunday, November 21, 2010 01:49:58 pm Bilal Akhtar wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 08:23 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > I found some packages in main that do not follow this scheme:
> > 
> > udev
> > upstart
> > 
> > Why did this happen? Will the version fixed in the next upload?
> 
> From what I know, Upstart is in Debian as well (though the case is
> opposite here, Scott keeps the Ubuntu package updated and the Debian
> package sometimes lags behind).
> 
> Could this be a reason for the wrong versioning?

Yeah, Upstart at least was originally a native Ubuntu package, since it wasn't 
being used anywhere else.

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