For some packages in main, yes Linux Mint maintains their own. But not universe :
ceefour@hendy:~ > aptitude show couchdb Package: couchdb State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Architecture: all Uncompressed Size: 96.3 k Depends: couchdb-bin (>= 1.4.0-0ubuntu1), adduser, upstart, sysv-rc (>= 2.88dsf-24) | file-rc (>= 0.8.16) Replaces: couchdb-bin (<= 1.0.1-0ubuntu18), couchdb-bin (<= 1.0.1-0ubuntu18) Description: RESTful document oriented database - system-wide instance Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language. CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments. This package adds the Upstart job and other items needed for a system-wide CouchDB instance that is started at boot. Homepage: http://couchdb.apache.org/ This was what happened: 1. I installed CouchDB 1.4.0 on Mint 16 (Ubuntu 13.10) 2. I replaced the /etc/couchdb and /var/lib/couchdb from my CouchDB 1.2 files (from Ubuntu 13.04) 3. CouchDB 1.4.0 won't start 4. I purged "couchdb" (only), then deleted /etc/couchdb and /var/lib/couchdb 5. I reinstalled "couchdb" 6. CouchDB 1.4.0 still won't start 7. I purged "couchdb", couchdb-common, and couchdb-bin 8. I reinstalled "couchdb" 9. CouchDB 1.4.0 now starts As this is a development machine, I didn't bother trying to restore my CouchDB 1.2 data files anyway since by then I was already tired of dealing with this. ;-) ** Changed in: couchdb (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1262220 Title: CouchDB crashes at startup: {"init terminating in do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{bad_return,{{couch_app,start,[normal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/couchdb/+bug/1262220/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
