[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#499854: Bug#499854: closed by Michael Meskes

[Joey Hess]

Michael Meskes wrote:
> If you have Ubuntu sources configured you might install Ubuntu packages which
> makes the check work. After all there is but one reason for this, to make sure
> an Ubuntu dir does not have an effect on a pure Debian system.

I could also install ubuntu packages by hand using dpkg. Or I could set
up a mirror that claims to be a debian mirror and contains ubuntu
packages. All three cases are vanishingly unlikely, and will break my
system eventually anyway, so are not something debian packages should be
catering to.

-- 
see shy jo
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