Debian Woody -> Ubuntu Dapper?

[Derek Broughton]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 11:58 -0300 schrieb Derek Broughton:
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:29 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> >> This "Ubuntu is not Debian" mantra is getting old.
>> >> 
>> >> For all the parts that really matter, here, Ubuntu _is_ Debian.
> true for the source packages, completely false for built binaries

Not for the purpose of upgrading from Woody, it isn't.
> 
>> >>  There's no
>> >> reason to assume that you would get broken packages _going to
>> >> breezy_.
>> > 
>> > When I sidegraded from woody to warty or hoary (can't remember), I had
>> 
>> True.  And then a great deal of effort went into ensuring that, in
>> future, Ubuntu packages would always have version numbers greater than
>> the corresponding Debian ones.

> how would that work ? if you enable sid repositories on a breezy system
> nearly *all* version numbers in the debian repo will be higher today and
> your system will completely break on an upgrade.

Are you trying to tell me that package "X" in Ubuntu, synchronized at some
point to package "X" in debian, doesn't always have a higher version number
in the current Ubuntu?  Trying to upgrade from Breezy to sid will probably
be a nightmare, because Debian never syncs to Ubuntu.  Woody to Dapper,
otoh, should cause few problems - far fewer, in fact, than Sid to Dapper,
or probably even Sarge to Dapper, because _all_ of the Dapper packages
should have been synced to Debian since Woody.
-- 
derek