Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> (2014-11-11): > As long as apt prefers a version from stable over a version from > backports when both are available (unless instructed to install from > backports) why is this a problem? > > It seems more user friendly to me for a package that's been > specifically ask for to end up installed rather than not. As I probably wrote in the mentioned bug report, it seems more friendly, safe, and honest to stick to stable packages on a stable system instead of silently stuff from backports. It's not like uncommenting a line in sources.list should be a huge burden anyway (having to figure out which line to add, depending on the target suite, wasn't too trivial when backports moved from backports.d.o to the archive; but we're way past that now). Mraw, KiBi.
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