On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14:53, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Allan Jacobsen wrote: > > The packages from backports work fine, I have them on all the servers I > > administer, but they are not official, so I don't know if we should > > recommend them. > > Another way of expressing the above is "The packages floating around on > the 'net work fine...".
Come on Jonas, the packages from backports are hardly random packages floating on the internet, they are, just like your unofficial repository, mostly quality work by debian maintainers, and the result of frustration over things like a spamassassin in woody that removes max 10% of spam, the one from backports is closer to 50%. > > I suggest not recommending the use of backports.org! > > I feed backports.org through hundreds of backported packages from > debian.jones.dk - I just do not suggest recommending random use, and > especially not in an attempt to tighten security. > We agree, debian-edu should only recommend official packages, but sometimes you can use other stuff, and after some testing I have been using spamassassin, amavis-ng and clamav form backports for some months with great success. Best regards Allan Jacobsen Linuxbutikken.dk
