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Zimmerman: Weve packaged all of the free software what now?Zimmerman: Weve packaged all of the free software what now?Posted Jul 7, 2010 17:11 UTC (Wed) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)In reply to: Zimmerman: Weve packaged all of the free software what now? by nlucas Parent article: Zimmerman: Weve packaged all of the free software what now?
> It should be the distro mission to make sure every package in the new distro version is compatible with the previous version, so the user can just take a deb from the next distro version and install it on the LTS version (no big problem if that would force the update of many other packages).
Youre in luck, then. For unrelated reasons (being able to recover from an interrupted upgrade), this is part of Debian policy.
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Zimmerman: Weve packaged all of the free software what now? Posted Jul 7, 2010 18:16 UTC (Wed) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
Then I either have been unlucky with Ubuntu on the few times I tried this or they are not exactly doing the same (which really doesn't surprise me that much).
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