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Re: Backports integrated into the main archive



On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>      Dear users and supporters of the backports service!
> 
>  The Backports Team is pleased to announce the next important step
> on getting backports more integrated.  People who are reading
> debian-infrastructure-announce[1] will have seen that there was an
> archive maintenance last weekend: starting with wheezy-backports the
> packages will be accessible from the regular pool instead of a separate
> one, and all backports uploads will be processed through the regular
> upload queue (including those for squeeze-backports and
> squeeze-backports-sloppy).
> 
[...]
> == Thanks ==
> 
>  Finally, we want to thank the FTP-Master Team for their fine work on
> making this happen.


I already asked about that in September 2010 and this was the reply
from Joerg:

 > > (a) Wouldn't it have made more sense to directly integrate it into the
 > > main ftp, just as different suites?
 >
 > No.

What has changed since then?

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