ubuntu-backports and dist-upgrade

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:01:29AM +0200, Jochen Kächelin wrote:
>I just added the following lines to my sources.list:
>
>deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main 
>universe multiverse restricted
>
>deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main
>universe multiverse restricted
>
>what will happen when I update fromy hoary to breezy when I
>install some .debs from backports, e.g. clamav and mozilla-firefox
>to get newer versions?
>
>under debian they say that you may be run into trouble when
>you install .debs from backports and try a "dist-upgrade".

I think that's true for Ubuntu as well.

Wouldn't it be a good idea if all backports packages fell nicely in
between Hoary and Breezy? E.g. by making sure versioning of each package
satisfied

 hoary package < backports package < Breezy package

Doesn't sound like something that's impossible to achieve.

/M

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