Chris Butler wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > > As discussed on backports-users[1], the paragraph about backports.org is > now a bit confusing. Now that lenny has been released, there are some > packages from squeeze going into etch-backports. However, the lenny release > notes state: > > 4.2.5.1. Using backports.org packages > > backports.org is a semi-official repository provided by Debian GNU/Linux > developers, which provides newer packages for the stable release, based > on a rebuild from the packages from the “testing” archive. > > The backports.org repository mainly contains packages from “testing”, > with reduced version numbers so that the upgrade path from etch > backports to lenny still works.
I guess a s/lenny/lenny + lenny-backports/ is the current situation. > This last paragraph suggests that the packages in etch-backports all have > lower versions than their respective packages in lenny so that any updates > to the lenny package will be installed over the old package from > etch-backports. Since this is no longer the case, I think there needs to be > a note added here to inform users they may have packages installed from > etch-backports which are versions from squeeze. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org