Testing Backports

[Martin Meredith]

As far as aI know, seeing as it's backproting automatically from breezy,
it shouldnt' cause problems at all... unless of course, the breezy
packages are b0rked, and then we go and fix them in breezy, and backport
again

John Dong wrote:
> So now that we're official and without a staging branch, have we figured
> out how we'd test backports with a beta-testing group before letting the
> general public have to deal with them?
> 
> I've caught many problems on the staging branch before: packages that
> don't cleanly upgrade, packages that cause conflicts with existing ones,
> packages that look "fine" but the binaries segfault, etc etc etc, so
> some sort of testing branch is fairly important.
> 

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