Hi Charles, On Mon Dec 28, 2015 at 23:19:30 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > In conclusion: > > We are not going to enable backports by default in the short term, but > I hope that some readers, like me, strenghtened their understanding on > how APT works.
First of all, thank you very much for this excellent summary. How about the following idea: In case we are not able to find a technical solution for this for the Debian Stretch release, we encourage cloud providers to offer two images, one with backports enabled and one without backports? For the backports-enabled images we then could ask them to add a disclaimer explaining the technical problem. This way users have the choice if they want Debian Stretch including backports enabled or if the want to choose 'plain Debian Stretch'. Comments welcome, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B
