[ Full quote for debian-backports@ ] Dear Debian backports team, On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:31:05PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi, > > the current release notes contain: > > <para> > The <literal>backports.org</literal> repository mainly contains packages > from <quote>testing</quote>, with reduced version numbers > so that the upgrade path from &oldreleasename; backports to > &releasename; still works. However, there are a few backports > which are made from unstable: security updates, plus the following > exceptions: Firefox, the Linux kernel, OpenOffice.org, and X.Org. > </para> > <para> > If you do not use one of these exceptions, you can safely upgrade > to &releasename;. If you use one of these exceptions, set the > <literal>Pin-Priority</literal> (see <citerefentry> <refentrytitle>apt_preferences</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>5</manvolnum> </citerefentry>) > temporarily to <literal>1001</literal> for all packages from &releasename;, > and you should be able to do a safe dist-upgrade too. > </para> > > The current versions of iceweasel, linux-2.6 and openoffice.org in > lenny-bpo seem to be older than the versions in squeeze, and there is no > X.Org backport afaik. So maybe these paragraphs are not necessary? > > Adding Rhonda in cc for comments as bpo admin. do you have some input on this? Furthermore, a tad unrelated, I'd suggest to rename section "2.1.5. backports.org/backports.debian.org" to "2.1.5. Debian Backports". Kind regards Phliipp Kern
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