Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 12:11:30 schrieb David Guntner: >> In other words, backports packages are specifically compiled and >> configured for the current stable release (in this case, Wheezy) from >> the testing (in the case, Sid?) release package. > > David, that doesn´t say anything about my claim. > >> So I'm not sure where you got that idea from. :-) > > AFAIR as I read several times on debian-backports mailinglist on why a > package > was not considered for backports, if a package from Sid installs into Stable > *without* pulling any additional dependencies from Sid, it is not considered > for backports. > > I do not have any exact references right now, but that is what I remember.
Ok, I'll take your word for it. :-) --Dave
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