[Sheflug] Debian Backports Service Becoming Official

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Backports service becoming official
Date: Sunday 05 September 2010, 22:08:37
From: "Alexander Reichle-Schmehl" <tolimar@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: debian-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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The Debian Project                                
http://www.debian.org/
Backports service becoming official                     press@xxxxxxxxxx
September 5th, 2010             
http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100995
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Backports service becoming official

The Debian Project is proud to announce that the backports service,
previously available at www.backports.org [1] is now an official Debian
service available at backports.debian.org [2].

  1: www.backports.org
  2: backports.debian.org

Backports are packages from the testing distribution recompiled for 
the current stable (or even oldstable) release to provide users of the 
stable distribution with new versions of certain packages, like the 
Linux kernel, the Iceweasel browser or the OpenOffice.org suite, without
sacrificing the overall stability of the system.

The archive currently has 528 packages backported for the Lenny
distribution.  As the infrastructure to accept packages for the 
upcoming Squeeze release is already in place, this allows Debian 
Installer images to configure the backports repository by default 
without generating errors on user systems. The service for Squeeze 
will be enabled at a later date, after the release.

Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs
relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the
debian-backports [3] list, which have now also been moved to
lists.debian.org [4].

  3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/
  4: http://lists.debian.org

Informations on how to use the backports service are available at the 
new backports website [5].  Users of the old backports service should 
change their sources.list to point to:
  deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports 
main contrib non-free (or one of its mirrors). Please also note, that 
with the integration into Debian's infrastructure the GPG key used to 
sign the backports repository has been changed to Debian's official FTP-
master key.

  5: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/


About www.backports.org
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The backports service at www.backports.org was orginially started by
Debian Developer Norbert Tretkowski with much support from team(ix).  
It was later continued and improved by Debian Developers Alexander 
Wirt (organisation) and Jörg Jaspert (technical support) to host over 
500 backported packages for various architectures.
We would like to thank team(ix) for providing a good home for this
service for all these years.

  6: http://www.backports.org/
  7: http://www.teamix.net/


About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly 
free, community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of 
the largest and most influential open source projects.  Over three 
thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create 
and maintain Debian software. Translated into over 30 languages, and 
supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the 
"universal operating system".


Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
www.debian.org or send mail to <press@xxxxxxxxxx>.


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