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Re: Question about wheezy-backports



Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> On my stable install where new packages haven't been cleared in a while 
> (179 in total) I have only 2 new packages that do *not* come from 
> backports (icedove-l10n-hr and icedove-l10n-hy-am).
>
> Actually I'm quite surprised about these two even showing up, given that 
> for Debian "stable" means "not changing", but I can understand why they 
> were allowed anyway:
>
> $ apt-cache policy icedove
> icedove:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 24.4.0-1~deb7u1
>   Version table:
>      24.4.0-1~deb7u1 0
>         500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages
>      10.0.12-1 0
>         500 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
>

See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.security.announce/2835
about changes in iceweasel and icedove updates.  There was an LWN
article about this: https://lwn.net/Articles/552920/

-- 
regards,
kushal

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