Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately Adrian didn't wrote why he thinks backports aren't > usable for production systems. The only real problem with backports I > see is that there are no guaranted security updates.
Er, you missed another big one, then: trust. Trusting the work of Debian developers by no means implies trusting each and every backport found on the net (not to mention other obvious problems outlined by Andreas). > This could be a reason for someone to not using backports. For me it's > not, I'm using my own backports. Good for you, but that does not solve the problem for Joe Random User. -- Florent