On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:42:11PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> I know debian maintains a source package for each package, which has
> metadata for instructing the system how to compile it and ''debianise"
> it. Would it be in order to utilise a debian source package on ubuntu
> in this way?
sure, should work just as well as taking a package from sarge and
rebuilding it for woody. you may need to adjust a dependency here or
there, but not as much as would be needed for woody which is a lot
older.
greetings, martin.
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