On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > Does "bpo" mean something specific, or it just a contraction of > > "backport"? > > AFAIK it's a historic abbreviation for Backports.org, the > predecessor of debian-backports before they became official. Yes it means BackPorts.Org. and I don't want to drop that. It always worked well to check with a simple dpkg -l what backports are installed on a system. Alex