On Friday 22 January 2010 16:28:37 Camaleón wrote: > And went to backport lists and saw some movement on this: > > *** > Accepted iceweasel 3.5.6-1~bpo50+1 (source all amd64) > http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/message/20100116.120653.e7d54ae9.en.h > tml *** > > But I don't know what does it mean. This is the first time I have to deal > with "backports" infrastructure and I dunno how to interpret those > messages.
It's just another repository. It isn't official, yet, but I think there was some movement on that. (It would be nice for backports and volatile to be able to use the existing mirror network; I don't know many Debian users that can go completely without them.) The "backports" repository is completely separate from the action "to backport" that the security team sometimes does for patches. "To backport" a patch is to take a patch for version X+n of a program and modify it to apply to version X of a program. > So, do you think the package will be available in backports for stable > release (Lenny) or just indicates the package is being tested for another > branch (unstable/testing)? :-? Backports is packages from testing (and rarely unstable) that have been build under a stable environment and should be installable without pulling any packages from testing/unstable. They are not part of stable, since the upstream version wasn't available or wasn't ready at release time, however they should "play nice" with stable. I've occasionally pulled packages from there, but less so now. I've been following KDE 4.x since 4.2 entered unstable by using a mixed system. With testing/unstable available simply, I don't much use backports. I did pull down pidgin from backports recently though. As far as iceweasel availability in backports goes, see Sven Hoexter's message. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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