On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: >>> I would favour tagging backports as update repos, so that in the event >>> of a newer backport for security or bug fixes, that it will be >>> automatically presented with other updates. >> >> No. >> as the update applet currently works it would show the backport as >> an update even if you dont have an earlier backport installed, >> defeating the purpose of having separate /updates vs /backports > > This is conditional on first modifying the update tools, as suggested next. > A backport should only update an already installed backport. > (Similarly for nonfree and tainted, if that is not already the case.)
We should not change the behaviour of medias tagged as update repo. If we want a different behaviour for backports then we should tag those medias as backport, not update.
