Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1
* Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de> wrote:
[...]
>> Unfortunately Adrian didn't wrote why he thinks backports aren't
>> usable for production systems. The only real problem with backports
>> I see is that there are no guaranted security updates.
>
> Imho the real potential for problems with backports is mixing
> different ones.
I know that mixing backports from different repositories can cause
problems, but I was talking about using _selected_ backports, not
about using all backports from every repository available on the net.
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- nobse
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