Re: dist-upgrade with backports

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

	Hi!

* Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac <lscarneiro@veltrac.com.br> [2010-05-18 14:35:33 CEST]:
> But now, in the edge of the Squeeze release, i'm wondering: will i have  
> some problem that i should be aware when upgrading to squeeze due to the  
> use of the backported packages?

 There are some packages excempt from the "only backport from testing"
rule and in the case of security relevant issues packages are allowed to
go in from unstable directly. In the extreme case this can potentially
lead to newer packages in lenny-backports than what will be in squeeze
stable.

 When the release is there or close, you can check the differences on my
diff page: <http://backports.deb.at/lenny-backports/newer.html> for
packages that are with newer version in lenny-backports than in squeeze,
and <http://backports.deb.at/lenny-backports/NA.html> for packages that
aren't in squeeze at all.

 If you have installed one of the "newer" packages you might consider
"downgrading" to the version in squeeze when the release happens, if you
have installed one of the NA (not available) packages you might
consider to get rid of them because they won't receive any support.

 Hope that helps!
Rhonda