Re: Security updates realized by new releases, case for backports?

[Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs>]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:46:33 +0300
Riku Valli <riku.valli@vallit.fi> wrote:

> Konqueror isn't solution, because most websites check you browser
> strings and uses flash, javascript and so on. Yes, i know at i can
> change these strings, but most in cases this isn't enough if i like
> use this website.

Unfortunately, there are not much free software web browsers that
support all new features. AFAIK Mozilla and probably Chromium (I haven't
been using it). 

$ apt-cache search web.browser | grep -i "web.browser" | grep -vE "(^lib|amule|addon|plugin|man pages|net|extension|unit|Perl|intro|IRC|Myth|-(data|dbg|common|dev))" | sort
arora - simple cross platform web browser
chimera2 - Web browser for X
chromium - Google's open source chromium web browser
conkeror - keyboard focused web browser with Emacs look and feel
dillo - Small and fast web browser
epiphany-browser - Intuitive GNOME web browser
ezmlm-browse - Web browser for ezmlm-idx archives
hv3 - Lightweight web browser
iceweasel - Web browser based on Firefox
konqueror - advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and text mode
links - Web browser running in text mode
luakit - A fast and small web browser extensible by Lua
midori - fast, lightweight graphical web browser
rekonq - KDE web browser based on Webkit
surf - simple web browser
wapua - Web browser for WAP WML pages
xxxterm - Minimalist's web browser

> When you used backports i think lot of peoples are quite confused,
> because apt-cache show package shows 2 and sometimes 3 (user used 3
> party repo exm. deb-multimedia) same programs and only difference is
> version number

Well. yes, it's a bit confusing. To really find out which repo contains
which version you have to extract versions
from /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages.

> How ordinary user can handle this? apt-get install package refuses
> install latest version and when they understand how to install latest
> version. They installed lot of packages from backports and broke their
> installation.

I am not a Debian developer, but this looks to me like a bad backport.
If backporter didn't lower versions of dependencies to versions from
stable, then such conditions may occur.