Oh Boy....

[Christoph Wegscheider]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:41:39PM +0200, Christoph Wegscheider wrote:
>> As it seems now, the deb pool becomes divided into a compatible to debian
>> and a compatible to ubuntu part, this is a great danger as it might be the
>> beginning of a deb hell. 
> 
> The reason why Debian packages don't share the same problem isn't that
> they're meant to be universal.  It's that when you run Debian, you can get
> high-quality packages for most everything directly from Debian.  Because you
> don't need to search out a third-party package, you don't need to worry
> about whether it's compatible with Debian.

That's not the full truth, even debian is the biggest software package
archive, there are many apps which are not part of it. 
http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested to name just those
somebody has requested. There are also many apps which simply doesn't
fulfill the requirements to be included, but people want/need them
anyway on their debian/ubuntu installation. So I think there are and will be
third party debs.  


	Christoph