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| From | Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"? |
| Date | 2016-12-07 15:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sLLeG-1cj-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Understood. Thanks! Martin On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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