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Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(



Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> (2015-04-19):
> I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in
> Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without
> much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug.

Not knowing about this bug report doesn't mean there were no arguments
given; quite the contrary actually, since nobody opposed them.

> In my opinion it's very good when backports is default in sources.list.

My opinion is that I don't want to push ticking time bombs into the hands
of our users. And that's exactly what defaulting to enabling backports
was.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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