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Re: Debian Backports are inconsistent - any ideas ?



Jan Ingvoldstad schrieb am Mittwoch, den 01. Februar 2012:

> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:13, Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
> 
> > Jan Ingvoldstad schrieb am Mittwoch, den 01. Februar 2012:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 08:21, dE . <de.techno@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > This's expected. I take installing form backports itself as a warning.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the OP has a point – this warning is missing from
> > > http://backports.debian.org/.
> > >
> > > If I may use the the collective "we": we should make this abundantly
> > clear,
> > > if it is something to be expected, it cannot be implicit.
> > feel free to provide a wording.
> >
> >
> Feel free not to be snarky.
> 
> To provide a wording, it would help to be clear about what to expect and
> not.
It is not possible to test every consequence of a new/upgraded backport.
So incompatibilitys between backports and/or stable componentens may happen. 

And sometimes they are even known and can't be avoided.

-- 
Alexander Wirt, formorer@formorer.de 
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