Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?
Understood. Thanks!
Martin
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:25:17PM +0200, Martin T wrote:
>> Dan,
>>
>> > On the other hand, upgrade your webserver to a backports version,
>> > and the webserver has been compiled against the libs you already have.
>>
>> thanks! Is this also one of the reasons why not all packages in
>> testing are available via backports? I mean I could imagine that there
>> are packages which require some features which are provided only by
>> libraries available for "testing" and thus the package can not be
>> available via backports.
>>
>>
>
> That, and the fact that it takes effort to backport things, it can
> sometimes be quite hard, and the people doing it aren't getting paid to.
> So the things that get backported tend to be the things that either the
> package maintainer wants, or that there is a lot of demand (and hence a
> high chance of appreciation) for.
>
> Mark
>
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