[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >it is legitimate and legal and all what you want. but it also makes the >cooperation between the two distribution a lot harder: > > * take the not so recent example of Xorg6.9. Ubuntu decided to switch > to Xorg way sooner than debian. good for'em. as a result, you > couldn't even build an ubuntu package on debian, because it lacked > the necessary build-depends. > > * ubuntu having python2.4 by default since 1year+ also causes problems > in that sense (even if one could argue that nothing really prevented > debian to switch earlier)... > >and I guess there will still be numerous examples of that kind in the >future.
Two great examples showing how Debian development has been lagging. You cannot blame Ubuntu because Debian sucks. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
