On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The actual proposal in the bug report is to add backports.debian.org > to the default sources.list file in the installer, but not otherwise > change anything about the backports configuration. Specifically, the > archive would remain NotAutomatic ButAutomaticUpgrades. > > This would *enable* users to install software from backports if it > either didn't exist in stable at all or if they explicitly requested > it from backports, but would not install such software by default. > > I think this is an excellent idea and is absolutely something we > should do. backports.debian.org helps considerably in easing the pain > of our long release cycle but is underadvertised. This would make > using it much simpler and more straightforward for our users. FWIW, I concur. -- 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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