Re: build-debian-cloud and cloud-init
On 08/19/2013 03:09 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:20:46PM +0200, Anders Ingemann a écrit :
>>
>> cloud-init requires backports to be added. What do you think?
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I recommend to enable backports. Currently, the cloud-init package in
> backports is at the latest upsream release.
>
> Backports are not part of Stable and therefore the systems using backports are
> not standard installations, but on the other hand, if we do not use backports,
> we will need to use more non-pakcaged code, which in my opinion makes us even
> less standard.
>
> There is also a patch to apt-setup at http://bugs.debian.org/691651, to enable
> backports in standard installations.
>
> Have a nice day,
Backports are fully part of Debian, and I will make sure it gets updated
if needed. During Debconf13, we all agreed that this was the way to go.
It's a lot cleaner than using what's in build-debian-cloud, which is
neither in stable or backports.
Thomas
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