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Bug#764982: Backports, where is the danger (why the FUD)



On Apr 19, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:

> What is the danger of having backports (default) enabled?

From what I've seen (when I tried it a couple of years ago), is that
the back porting is quite … "sloppy". If the package needs a newer lib,
that is back ported as well. And the newer lib that depends on etc, etc.

Eventually, you end up with such a bastardizised version of dist, it
simply WILL break in mysterious ways (and it have for me, which is why
is stopped using it).

The correct way is, off course, to do the back port properly, make the
software work with the version of the libraries etc that's already in
the repo/dist.
--
If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
- Homer Simpson


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