On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès <pierre.fou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le mar. 26 mars 2019 à 14:20, Nicholas Geovanis ><nickgeova...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> I'm pretty sure that I encountered this in the past but I don't have any >> proof to hand. >> IIRC when the release enters LTS the backports stop being augmented. Is that >> (still) >> correct? Therefore there will be no repository for them. IIRC I once found a >> statement >> to that effect in the debian wiki. But again my evidence is not right now >> available. >> > > This seems like a sound explanation. Would be nice to have it > confirmed or infirmed.
https://backports.debian.org/ Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. >From that I infer that jessie-backports are like woolly mammoths. The old bones may still be around somewhere, but the animals themselves are extinct. > BTW, a similar issue [1] have been reported to debian-lts@. I linked > this thread and Bernie's thread in it. I hope we get a clear answer > about the jessie-updates/ impact. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2019/03/msg00117.html > > -- “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance-- we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves
