Re: Fw: enabling wheezy-backports by default (Re: Backports integrated into the main archive
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:12:40 +0100
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 20:59 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > [Hideki Yamane]
> > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
> > >
> > > So, is there plan to enable by default?
> > >
> > > Most of desktop users doesn't get used to edit system files, and
> > > enabling it solves some problems can help it, IMO.
> >
> > Enabling backports by default is pretty much equivalent to just
> > putting updates directly in stable.
> >
> > Or, to put it another way, the reason backports exists is also the
> > reason not to enable it by default.
>
> The low priority of *-backports should mean that no-one can install from
> them by accident.
Yes.
And I hope we can resolve outdated iceweasel/icedove/iceape/chromium issue
if it's enabled.
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Regards,
Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
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