Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?
On 2013-05-23 18:59 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to
> open this discussion.
>
> Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to
> debian-volatile
No, it's not. Please read http://backports.debian.org/.
> and is intended for use of debian/stable users (aka wheezy at
> the moment). As far as I read, packages in wheezy-backports are put into, when
> the environment of those is chenged and a higher (and newer version) is
> needed. As an example I want to name here clamav (which needs a newer version,
> when the virus-database is being updated, some chatprograms like yahoo, ehen a
> new protocol must be used or new protocols have to be used, but package
> versions in wheezy do not support them).
This is what wheezy-updates is for.
Cheers,
Sven
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