Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty: a comparison

Posted Aug 18, 2009 20:01 UTC (Tue) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty: a comparison by drag
Parent article: Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty: a comparison

> Ideally what should happen is that Ubuntu and Debian remain compatible
> enough that they can share the same repositories.

Err... Even their essential packages set is different. Ubuntu has
declared python as essential. (essential = package to which other
packages may not declare a dependency unless a versioned dependency is
needed and without which other packages cannot be installed)