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<h2>New <q>sloppy</q> backports suite for stable Debian <q>Lenny</q></h2>
<p>Gerfried Fuchs from Debian's backports team <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20101004201643.GA8231@edna.deb.at";>announced a new suite on
backports</a> for Debian <q>Lenny</q>: <q>lenny-backports-sloppy</q>. Its usage is
similar to the regular backports suite, but there's a major difference
in the contents of the suites: while users of the normal
backports suite can expect to update without major problems to the next
Debian stable release (as it only contains backports of the next
following distribution), users of the newly created backports-sloppy suite may need
to take special precautions, as the backports of the sloppy suite are not
restricted to coming from the next distribution, but may come from the second-next.
The new suite thus may also contain newer packages (e.g. during the
freeze already from the <q>unstable</q> branch). It therefore allows
users to easily access newer versions of packages; but users can
not just upgrade to the following stable release but will at least need to
also use the corresponding regular backport suite for packages from the
sloppy suite.</p>
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