On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, David Prévot wrote: > [ Maybe a -backports list would be a better place to discuss this issue > than -release ] > > Hi, > > Le 14/10/2012 03:41, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > When you have backports in your sources.list, you don't automatically > > get your upgrades from there. Once you do install one for the first > > time, subsequent upgrades come from backports. But in the case of > > iceweasel, version bumps also require new packages for xulrunner and > > libmozjs, and that prevents automatic upgrades: iceweasel's is kept > > back by apt. Default apt preferences for the iceweasel packages would > > ensure stable users that use backports sources will always get the > > latest. > > You may wish to include an /etc/apt/preferences.d/iceweasel [1] file in > your backported software, but I wonder if that would be a really good > idea, if that would be enough to achieve your purpose, and if that would > be safe of unwanted side effects. Wrong, not in the backported one. In the stable one. If a package is installed from bpo the file isn't needed.
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