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

From rhkramer@gmail.com
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?
Date 2016-12-07 15:20 +0100
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On Wednesday, December 07, 2016 08:25:17 AM Martin T wrote:
> > 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.

And just to add to the discussion (I hope), note that not all packages in 
testing are necessarily in backports, whether it is possible or not.

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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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