Backports ??

[Derek Broughton]

Willy Hamra wrote:

> 2008/9/10 Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>:
>> I've been meaning to ask this for some time now - what advantages are
>> there in enabling the backports repos? Are there any disadvantages?
>>
> you get new versions of packages that are considered unsafe for main,
> when packages are updated, they are sent to main,

Not really true.  Once a release is made, "main" is static except for
security issues (and they should come from the ubuntu-security repo. 
Backports can have new features.

> if the update 
> affects the minor version number, but if the major version number
> changed, ubuntu has a policy of putting this package in the backports
> instead. i never got any problems from backports so far

Neither have I.
-- 
derek