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

From Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?
Date 2016-12-08 12:20 +0100
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Hi Martin,

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:06:55PM +0200, Martin T wrote:
> is it a good practice to prefer latest versions from
> backports(jessie-backports) by default while using stable(jessie)
> distribution?

[…]

> Or is it a better practice to cherry-pick packages from "jessie-backports"?

Personally I only ever cherry-pick from backports because there is
normally a specific package I want, and I don't want the behaviour
of the entire rest of my system to potentially change.

Cheers,
Andy

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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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