Re: Apt-pinning confusion

[Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:00:55 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 10:45:27, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>> 
>> I was just thinking if it would be better to switch from linux-
>> image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae on another machine to linux-
>> image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae?
>> But maybe the difference isn't immense so I probably shouldn't change
>> the running system :-)
> 
> The bpo.1 is likely to disappear from backports very soon and not
> receive any security support as of the point bpo.2 was uploaded (the
> Kernel Team can't support more than one version in backports).

Thanks for the explanation!
So why didn't they "just" update the version that won't receive any 
updates?


Best regards
Ramon