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Ubuntu debs often didn't work on Debian anyway.
I'd rather not install third-party debs.
Right and you don't know if it's an ubuntu deb or a debian deb. I seem to recall that being a pain point, and having to figure out what packages had different names to resolve dependencies... good times.