Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apturl
While adding arbitrary software repositories via apturl may be a security risk, adding standard Ubuntu repositories such as karmic- backports (and potentially karmic-proposed, etc) would not seem to be. This could be done through apt:foo?channel=karmic-backports if karmic- backports were added to /usr/share/app-install/channels New versions of upstream packages can often not be added to the current release, leaving many upstream projects resorting to their own PPA rather than focusing on the next release and getting backported. This could result in a much cleaner install path. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Nov 28 06:10:37 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: apturl 0.4.1ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic SourcePackage: apturl Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64 ** Affects: apturl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug -- backports not supported as a software channel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489518 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs