On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:55:42PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> >each of woody, sarge, warty and hoary represent a different snapshot of
> >the debian universe.
> Yes, except for the case where ubuntu/* packages (warty, hoary, etc) 
> have had modifications made that are not accepted by Debian. At which 
> point the package diverges, albeit only slightly.

here is the ubuntu faq entry regarding this issue:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-15.7453904394

the following two are also interresting:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/upgrade-sarge
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/upgrade-woody

greetings, martin.
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