On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:24:00PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > 1) Use backports by default in apt.source in cloud images, and we > bless this as still being Debian > > Personally, I am happy with #1, so long as the rest of the community > is. Given that backports are not installed by default, I don't think the matter of whether backports is *present* in sources.list alone is enough to define the problem. It's rather how many packages we have to install from it, and how relevant they are. Considering that, AFAICT, we're talking only about cloud-init, and considering its relevance for the cloud images, I think installing it from backports in the cloud images would be acceptable. (And, as we discussed earlier on, at that point you really want to have backports in sources.list, to avoid missing updates for the backported package.) What we should certainly do is have some Debian documentation specific for the cloud images, which include a list of differences from regular images. (But before talking about this, we should probably look into having a "get Debian" page for Debian cloud images :-)) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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