On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:09:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> There are security updates on wheezy-backports, but I assume that you mean
> that: if 1) we do not add wheezy-backports to /etc/apt/sources.list and 2) if
> there is a security update, then it will be less straightforward for our users
> to benefit from it.
> 
> One solution would be to add wheezy-backports to /etc/apt/sources.list.  By
> default, it will never cause the installation of backports on the system 
> unless
> the administrator specifically requests it.

Considering the con (no security upgrades for cloud-init), and
considering backports are not installed by default, you're right, I
think having wheezy-backports by default would be acceptable and
justified by the need of having cloud-init.

Cheers.
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