Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(
Am Sonntag, 19. April 2015, 18:26:30 schrieb Cyril Brulebois:
> Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> (2015-04-19):
> > Op 19-04-15 om 18:01 schreef Michael Gilbert:
> > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I saw backports has been removed as default setting from
> > >> sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last
> > >> minute change, without much discussion so far I know.
> > >
> > > The installer's export mode allows you to make a choice about this,
> > > so
> > > please consider using that mode for all of your installs.
> >
> > I can change everything I want, but defaults are very important.
>
> Sane defaults are very important.
>
> Also, it would be nice to avoid starting threads in various places. I
> already answered in:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764982
I wonder about a commented entry for backports. This way people can easily
enable it. I saw Ubuntu using this for some repos.
I always end hand editing this on a lot of machines. But maybe I miss some
tool to configure apt sources more easily.
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