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Re: False information on backports.org



Martin Ammermüller <tenco@gmx.de> writes:

> On http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions the
> section about pinning is incorrect. You don't have to pin each backport
> individually, you can also use wildcards in /etc/apt/preferences to
> e.g. use always a package from backports (if it exists):

> Package: *
> Pin: release a=etch-backports
> Pin-Priority: 999

If you're going to do that, it's not clear (to me at least) why you
wouldn't just run testing.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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