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Author: Alan Pope
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian to Ubuntu, without complete reinstall?
2009/8/7 john lewis <johnlewis@???>:
> This make me fume!  Ubuntu is "supposed" to be a derivative of Debian
> and packages developed by Ubuntu developers were "supposed" to be
> compatible with the parent distro or at least passed back to Debian to
> be made compatible (/me simplifies a bit)
>


Says who?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth#What about binary
compatibility between distributions?

"Just to be clear, I'll say it again, for the record. We don't aim for
"binary compatibility" with any other distribution"

Cheers,
Al.