Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

From	Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?
Date	2016-12-07 15:10 +0100
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:25:17PM +0200, Martin T wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> > On the other hand, upgrade your webserver to a backports version,
> > and the webserver has been compiled against the libs you already have.
> 
> thanks! Is this also one of the reasons why not all packages in
> testing are available via backports? I mean I could imagine that there
> are packages which require some features which are provided only by
> libraries available for "testing" and thus the package can not be
> available via backports.
> 
> 

That, and the fact that it takes effort to backport things, it can 
sometimes be quite hard, and the people doing it aren't getting paid to. 
So the things that get backported tend to be the things that either the 
package maintainer wants, or that there is a lot of demand (and hence a 
high chance of appreciation) for.

Mark

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Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 00:50 +0100
  Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-12-07 01:40 +0100
    Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 14:30 +0100
      Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 15:10 +0100
        Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 15:20 +0100
      Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-12-07 15:20 +0100
  Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? maderios <maderios@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 15:30 +0100
    Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 12:10 +0100
      Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2016-12-08 12:20 +0100
      Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 12:30 +0100
        Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 12:50 +0100
        Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-12-11 08:50 +0100

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