Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Paul van der Vlis (p...@vandervlis.nl): Hello, I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug. In my opinion it's very good

Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
micah anderson mi...@debian.org (2015-04-19): You pointed out that apt will happily install a package from backports if it is not available in the base suite, which might mean that you don't realize that you are going to install something from backports because you didn't explicitly ask for

Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 19-04-15 om 18:12 schreef Cyril Brulebois: Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know about

Bug#764982: Backports removed from

2015-04-19 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Apr 19, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): Are all machines with backports enabled ticking timebombs? No, but you have to know what you do. Do you see that “but”? That's exactly why it's not safe to have this turned on by

Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug. In my opinion it's very good when backports is default in sources.list. With

Bug#764982: Backports removed from

2015-04-19 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug. Not knowing about this bug report

Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Geert Stappers
control reopen -1 stop On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 05:44:12PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know

Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread micah anderson
In my opinion it's very good when backports is default in sources.list. My opinion is that I don't want to push ticking time bombs into the hands of our users. And that's exactly what defaulting to enabling backports was. You pointed out that apt will happily install a package from backports

Bug#764982: Backports removed from

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Please you reply-all on the BTS.) Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): Now there is no time for a discussion anymore! There's not much to discuss… And this was not a RC-bug. Not marked as such but I wouldn't release Jessie with it, so that was RC anyway. :) I always enable

Bug#764982: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug. Not knowing about this bug report