Ubuntu is under attack (longish)

[Derek Broughton]

Anders Karlsson wrote:

> I have messed about with pinning as well, but usually only after
> either talking to a debian maintainer (had the pleasure of working
> with one a while back) or after reading very detailed howto's. I try
> very hard not to have to resort to pinning. And with Ubuntu, that has
> been very easy to stick to. :)

I'll point out that I used it for two very strict purposes. First, to get
"mambo" which is still afaik only available in debian/experimental (in the
end, I decided I wasn't interested).  Second to get Tomcat, which is still
not available in Ubuntu.  In both cases /etc/apt/preferences lists _only_
those packages ("mambo" and "*tomcat*", respectively) as installable and
for package "*" sets the priority to -1 (uninstallable).  That's the only
way I've found to avoid most problems, and I still have the odd hiccup.

> Breezy and Etch are quite close as I have understood it. 

Not really.  Breezy & Sarge became "stable" within weeks of each other. 
Etch is evolving while Breezy isn't, so Breezy is still closer (imo) to
Sarge.

> Dapper is similar to Sid, for the moment. But they are never a 100% match.

True.
-- 
derek