Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, December 07, 2016 08:25:17 AM Martin T wrote:
> > 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.

And just to add to the discussion (I hope), note that not all packages in 
testing are necessarily in backports, whether it is possible or not.