On Mi, 24 apr 13, 21:25:33, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:06 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 14:08:18 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > > > Le 26/02/2013 17:07, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : > > > > > > > the wheezy-backports is no longer located in backports.debian.org. It is > > > > now included on ftp.*.debian.org (it's already there[1]). > [...] > > > Here is a proposed patch, recycling the stable-updates section. > [...] > > Please leave the stable-updates section alone, and make a new one for > > backports. > > Added as r9771.
The current text implies backports are installed automatically (which they were not last time I used them). Attached a patch to fix this. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From 071e22c35a80caf39e655bdce8b01083c951af32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:12:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] backports are not installed automatically
---
trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
index ea4988f..e97c2ae 100644
--- a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
+++ b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
@@ -497,8 +497,8 @@ deb-src &url-debian-mirror-eg;/debian &releasename;-backports main contrib</prog
<para>
The next time you run <command>apt-get update</command>, the
system will become aware of the packages in the
- <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> section and will consider them
- when looking for packages to upgrade.
+ <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal> section. Note however that by default newer
+ versions of packages will not be installed, only new updates to backported versions.
</para>
<para>
When a new package is made available via <literal>&releasename;-backports</literal>
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