Hello, >Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014 um 19:41 Uhr >Von: "Jon Sonntag" <j...@thesonntags.com> > >My only hesitation with backports is the warning on the home page which >states: "Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and >backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities >with other components in Debian stable. Use with care!"
It should read: "The decision to provide an a package through backports is with the maintainer of that package. Other than with the stable release, the package had little opportunity to experience peer review. We trust our maintainers, but mistakes and unexpected incompatibilities may happen. In case of difficulties, installations can be reverted to the previous version, just avoid too many updates from backports at the same time and report your experience." >So, I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a couple virtual machines >to do Linux OpenCL and CUDA development. IMO, it makes no sense for >Debian 7 to become unstable by using semi-tested backports. Previous packages I had tested on a server of ours that intentionally escaped the updates. I could not test cuda on it, though. To render the backports fully tested, I would have needed help. But if it builds, why shouldn't it work. Cheers, Steffen _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
