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Thomas Bushnell BSG

2006-01-18, 5:56 pm

Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com> writes:

> Oh. There might be a misunderstanding: No binary package is taken from
> debian, only source packages. This means that EVERY package is being
> rebuilt in ubuntu on buildds, including arch: all packages. The output
> of apt-cache shows the field 'Origin' to indicate that this is not a
> package built on debian systems.


Good grief, and Matt Zimmerman said the exact opposite recently,
saying that Ubuntu does not rebuild every package. I have no idea
which is correct, but your statement matches what I have been told
before Matt said this recently.


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