Ubuntu getting overbranded?

[Jeremy J Swarm]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 16:10 +0200, Mateusz Drożdżyński wrote:
> On 9/25/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ubuntu is getting really great, but it's also getting really overbranded,
> >  every package are named package-1.0-123ubuntu123, which is in other
> > distribution have only -i386 suffix.
> 
> The 'ubuntu' suffix is used to distinguish between packages synced
> from Debian and the ones with Ubuntu-specific changes/fixes. It's a
> useful thing and I doubt it can be considered overbranding.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Mateusz Drożdżyński
hear hear.