Getting stuff backported is too hard

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Sunday 01,August,2010 01:28 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> There are many cases where PPA is the best solution because only users that 
> want that particular package will get it.  That makes PPAs great for people 
> who are focused on one package and want the latest when such packages might 
> not be suitable for general use.

I believe that adding a $release-backports pin to a lower priority in
/etc/apt/preferences.d by default, or if backports are enabled, should emulate
PPA behaviour. Perhaps this could be protected by an extra checkbox, "install
backports updates by default" or something.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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