On Sat, 09 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: >> > You got me thinking :) > - Just marking all backport repos as update repos is almost enough to solve > the problem, in terms of the tools installing the backports. Great idea ! > We just have to tweak the tools so that a backport is only installed as an > update of a backport.
No. People who only want to use a specific backport will not enable the backport repository. They will install the backport and keep the backports repository disabled. > > - Note that we should allow a non-backport to replace a backport, as will > likely be encountered in a release update. If the versioning is properly > done (according to established packaging policy), a non-backport in a newer > release will have a higher version number, thus replacing the backport. Which policy ?
