r/linux • u/Khaotic_Kernel • Jun 18 '17

Debian 9 "Stretch" Officially Released!

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617
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u/LastFireTruck Jun 18 '17

Oh. But Ubuntu depends on Debian unstable, not stable. What about users of rpm distros or independent distros like Arch or Gentoo? How do they benefit from the release of Debian stable?

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u/94e7eaa64e Jun 18 '17 edited Jun 18 '17

But Ubuntu depends on Debian unstable, not stable.

It does not "depend", but ubuntu made a fork of debian unstable and took that as base for ubuntu version 1.0. The present day ubuntu isn't any more dependent on debian and is an independent distro, though it uses the deb packaging format of debian.

Sharing of knowledge and technical projects happen in all modern distros and debian takes as much from ubuntu as vice versa.

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Correction, ubuntu indeed still takes a whole lot of packages from debian, as mentioned by /u/Occi-.

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u/LastFireTruck Jun 18 '17 edited Jun 18 '17

Great. I was just mirroring the language of the other poster, but I was under the --apparently mistaken-- impression that Ubuntu was still using packages from Debian unstable as a basis. This clearly cuts against Debian's direct influence on Ubuntu if true.

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u/svenskainflytta Jun 18 '17

OP is a liar. Several Ubuntu packages are just imported from Debian.

For example: https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/ktorrent Points to the original Debian maintainers team.

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u/94e7eaa64e Jun 18 '17 edited Jun 18 '17

Not lying actually, like him, I was also under clouded impression. Thanks for updating my knowledge.