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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/backports-promotion

• Created: 2005-10-27 by JaneWeideman

• Contributors: MartinMeredith, Trent , Stephan Hermann, Reinhard Tartler

• Packages affected:

Summary

Make people more aware of backports, and make the backport request process less transparent

(SoftwareManager would cover some of the above)

Rationale

Backports is now official, and a lot of people use it. It would be nice to have a way for new users to know it's there and to be able to enable it in a similar way to enabling universe

Use cases

Scope

Design

Implementation

• Create Wiki Documentation to explain what backports is, and how to use it with emphasis on the differences between backports and extras.
• Fix update-manager so that it checks for backports updates
• Update synaptic so that it shows a dialogue similar to the "universe" dialog to warn about enabling backports

Code

• self.templates.append(SourceEntryTemplate("deb",

  • "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/",

    • "breezy-backports", _("Ubuntu 5.10 backports"), ubuntu_comps))

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

CategorySpec