control reopen -1 stop On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 05:44:12PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in > Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without > much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug.
BR reopened for futher discussion. from the changelog: | Changes: | apt-setup (1:0.97) unstable; urgency=medium | . | * Stop enabling backports by default (Closes: #764982). Rationale: | - Packages in the base suite are preferred to the ones in the | backports suite so one needs to specifically ask for the version | from backports. | - That isn't true for packages which are only available in the | backports suite. | This means one could possibly install such packages without even | noticing they're not fetched from the base suite; and that seems | a dangerous default. That "danger" is installing an old package. That "danger" only occures when there is NO new package. A "bigger danger", a bigger disadvantage, is NOT getting the package installed. (not getting a package installed that _is available_ in backports ) The "danger" is no danger, the "bigger danger" is. > In my opinion it's very good when backports is default in sources.list. Typical use cases for having backports enabled: * Package became available after the release ( this will happen more and more ) * Package was too late for the freeze ( that has happend allready ) About the | This means one could possibly install such packages without even | noticing they're not fetched from the base suite; and that seems | a dangerous default. There is much doubt in 'could possibly' and 'seems a dangerous default' Please go beyond the doubt and install available packages. And let us find out which packages are missing in the base suite. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org