This one time, at band camp, Jim Popovitch said: > For instance in lenny (STABLE), the latest clamav is in volatile but > the latest spamassassin is in backports. > > What drives this? backports.org is an unofficial service, and is more free to break working configurations on upgrade or othewise introduce incompatibilities. It's down to the maintainers judgement which repo suits a given upload better. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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