Quoting Andrei POPESCU (andreimpopescu@gmail.com): > On Mi, 24 apr 13, 21:25:33, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:06 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 14:08:18 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > > > > Le 26/02/2013 17:07, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : > > > > > > > > > the wheezy-backports is no longer located in backports.debian.org. It is > > > > > now included on ftp.*.debian.org (it's already there[1]). > > [...] > > > > Here is a proposed patch, recycling the stable-updates section. > > [...] > > > Please leave the stable-updates section alone, and make a new one for > > > backports. > > > > Added as r9771. > > The current text implies backports are installed automatically (which > they were not last time I used them). Attached a patch to fix this. I suspect the patch might benefit from a quick review. > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > From 071e22c35a80caf39e655bdce8b01083c951af32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:12:59 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] backports are not installed automatically > > --- > trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk > index ea4988f..e97c2ae 100644 > --- a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk > +++ b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk > @@ -497,8 +497,8 @@ deb-src &url-debian-mirror-eg;/debian &releasename;-backports main contrib</prog > <para> > The next time you run <command>apt-get update</command>, the > system will become aware of the packages in the > - <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> section and will consider them > - when looking for packages to upgrade. > + <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> section. Note however that by default newer > + versions of packages will not be installed, only new updates to backported versions. > </para> > <para> > When a new package is made available via <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> > -- > 1.7.10.4 > --
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