Where are the breezy backports?

[volvoguy]

On 10/15/05, Colin Murphy <lists at spudulike.me.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 October 2005 21:24, Scott wrote:
>
> > Well for one thing, you'd get an error message every time you ran
> > apt-get-update if that directory were empty.
>
> OK, instead of empty, containing some sort of place holder file.  Would that
> work?

Well, also the fact that the backports project isn't part of Ubuntu.
If the devs wanted those packages in the current stable version,
they'd just put them in the existing repositories. This especially
applies for repositories that contain packages that Ubuntu *can't*
distribute - MS Fonts, Java, MP3 and other codecs and any other
non-free software that usually makes it into the backports and extra
type repositories. As the wiki now even states, just by making it easy
or providing the means for installing some non-free software could get
Ubuntu in trouble in some countries, so having those repositories
enabled by default just wouldn't work.

As for just leaving them alone, well, it does. If you have the Hoary
backports in your source.list file and upgrade to Breezy, the
backports lines will still be there unless you remove them manually.

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Aaron

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