Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

[Pierre Equoy]

Hi there,

First of all, if this topic is not quality-related, please let me know who
I should contact for this.

I had a lot of small issues today while installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my
laptop. For instance, I could not install the proprietary nvidia drivers
[1] (there was some unmet dependencies issues), nor Skype (from the partner
repository, same here, unmet dependencies with skype-bin package)

In the end, it looks like they were all linked to the server used to
retrieve the package list/updates.

After I changed it from Taiwan (it was set automatically during the
install, I guess this option is parsed from the location you set during the
installation?) to Main Server, and did the necesary "sudo apt-get update",
it was much better.

After switching from the Taiwanese server to the Main one, and doing a
"sudo apt-get upgrade", I got the following list of packages to update
(from a fresh install):

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The following packages will be upgraded:
  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra liboil0.3 liboxideqt-qmlplugin
liboxideqtcore0 libva1 oxideqt-codecs
  qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-extras-browser-plugin
qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-extras-browser-plugin-assets
  webapp-container webbrowser-app
10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
--------------------

Do you think it's normal that different servers provide different packages?
It was very misleading for me...

A few questions:
- is there a document listing the different servers?
- who is responsible for synchronizing the different servers so they all
contain the same packages?
- could this be considered a bug? If so, under what "component" should I
file it?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!



[1] For more info, please refer to
http://askubuntu.com/questions/451862/ubuntu-14-04-nvidia-drivers-cannot-be-installed

-- 
Pierre Equoy