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Author Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)
Bart Martens

2007-05-04, 7:19 am

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 23:16 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Bart Martens]
>
> Uhhhhh ... I thought the point of your project was to help package
> maintainers. Obviously if the maintainer has put something in
> experimental, he has already done the work to package it!
>
> Wouldn't putting the experimental version in your table be _more_
> useful than the sid version, if it's newer?


It is of course very good that during "Etch freeze" some packagers have
already packaged newer versions in Experimental. I intend to add a
column for the versions available in Experimental, to express
appropriate appreciation for those packagers. OK for you?

Regards,

Bart Martens



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