Quoting Paul van der Vlis (paul@vandervlis.nl):
> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> In my opinion it's very good when backports is default in sources.list.
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
>
> The bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764982
Hello,
This bug is closed by the following:
* Stop enabling backports by default (Closes: #764982). Rationale:
- Packages in the base suite are preferred to the ones in the
backports suite so one needs to specifically ask for the version
from backports.
- That isn't true for packages which are only available in the
backports suite.
This means one could possibly install such packages without even
noticing they're not fetched from the base suite; and that seems
a dangerous default.
I think this rationale is very clear...
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