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.