Excerpts from Scott Kitterman's message of Wed Mar 30 08:31:15 -0700 2011: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > > It's driven by user request and testing. In the case of packages with > rdepends we require testing of those as well (sometimes rdepends need to be > backported as well) so we don't leave users with a broken system. A > reasonably large fraction of users enable backports, so we need to be careful > (you should have seenthe flurry of bug reports when I did a backport that > broke Flash). > > Once we have not-automatic fully deployed we might be able to reconsider this. > > Backports are a purely community driven process, so we're always looking for > more help.
Scott, I think it may be worth arguing for a bit more of the Canonical-Employed server team members' time if backports achieves the level of usability that seems very close. I think it would certainly make upstreams happier too if instead of cherrypicking medium priority fixes into -updates, we just put critical fixes in -updates and pointed anyone wanting those nit-pick bugs fixed at backports. -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam