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Debian Unstable as major source for all Ubuntu packages

Story: Is Ubuntu moving away from .deb packages? Here is the complete storyTotal Replies: 0
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dba477

Apr 29, 2015
3:42 AM EDT 		It's well known fact that packages starting from Qemu-kvm,Xen Hypervisor,Libvirt, Spice-Server and so on and finishing with the recent versions of seabios are just back ported from Debian Unstable Repos been originally built and tested @Debian by professional Debian developers. Then several ubuntu specific patches got applied to particular debian build and package goes to Main or Universe of new LTS or non-LTS Ubuntu release. I can remind that Qemu-kvm for Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS was built @Ubuntu with Spice producing black screen, by well known reason.

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