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Bug#701769: new location for wheezy-backports



On Mi, 24 apr 13, 21:25:33, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:06 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 14:08:18 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> > > Le 26/02/2013 17:07, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > the wheezy-backports is no longer located in backports.debian.org. It is
> > > > now included on ftp.*.debian.org (it's already there[1]).
> [...]
> > > Here is a proposed patch, recycling the stable-updates section.
> [...]
> > Please leave the stable-updates section alone, and make a new one for
> > backports.
> 
> Added as r9771.

The current text implies backports are installed automatically (which 
they were not last time I used them). Attached a patch to fix this.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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From 071e22c35a80caf39e655bdce8b01083c951af32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:12:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] backports are not installed automatically

---
 trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
index ea4988f..e97c2ae 100644
--- a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
+++ b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
@@ -497,8 +497,8 @@ deb-src &url-debian-mirror-eg;/debian &releasename;-backports main contrib</prog
   <para>
     The next time you run <command>apt-get update</command>, the
     system will become aware of the packages in the
-    <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> section and will consider them
-   when looking for packages to upgrade.
+    <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> section. Note however that by default newer
+    versions of packages will not be installed, only new updates to backported versions.
   </para>
   <para>
    When a new package is made available via <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal>
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1.7.10.4

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