package upgrade

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:03:57AM -0400, jack wrote:
> I added the medibuntu to my sources, and found this update this morning
> for k3b.
> apt-cache policy k3b
> k3b:
>   Installed: 1.0-0ubuntu2
>   Candidate: 1.0-0ubuntu2+medibuntu1
>   Version table:
>      1.0-0ubuntu2+medibuntu1 0
>         500 http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com feisty/free Packages
>  *** 1.0-0ubuntu2 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> (I'm unsure what the _***_ means)

It indicates the version you currently have installed.

> apt-show-versions k3b
> k3b/feisty upgradeable from 1.0-0ubuntu2 to 1.0-0ubuntu2+medibuntu1
> 
> (I don't see any version differences here, either.)

What do you mean?  One of them has +medibuntu1, the other doesn't.

> Can someone enlighten me ?  I'm looking through the packages for kubuntu
> and medibuntu trying to determine what (if any) differences there may
> be.

Medibuntu applied some changes on top of the version in kubuntu.  You
may download the medibuntu .deb and unpack the changelog.Debian file
from it to see what exactly they changed.  apt-listchanges is a useful
package that does this for you before every apt-get upgrade.

Marius Gedminas
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