Excellent news that they sent me by mail, which can read here in English and that I tried to reproduce in full.
20 2013 March
The Debian project is pleased to announce that the Backports service for the next stable release of Debian 7 (codename "Wheezy") will be part of the main archive.
Backports are mostly packages from the Testing distribution (and in some cases from Unstable as well and security updates, for example) to compile in a stable environment so that they can work without new libraries (when possible) in the stable distribution of Debian. Although for now this service is provided in a separate file, starting with wheezy-backports the packages will be accessible from the pool principal.
Wheezy users will need to add this entry to their sources.list file;
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
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I have a question.. Tanglu it has nothing to do with this right? 😀
old excuse the ignorance, but I did not understand much, is it something like that it will be updated once more stable? thanks
Something like that .. you can keep what Tony says below ..
So I can finally update Iceweasel version 10.0.12 found in the repositories? Because it goes slower than the bad guy's horse.
What other types of applications are available in the backports? Libreoffice perhaps? I have never seen the need to use them ...
It remains to be seen which packages will integrate Backports for Wheezy, but in the case of Squeeze there are many of interest, such as the latest version of Iceweasel (on par with Firefox), Libreoffice 3.x (when Squeeze has OpenOffice by default) and many more.
In addition, we can also include the Multimedia-backports repository, which includes other multimedia software updated to its latest version, such as VLC, XBMC, etc.
Exactly, the backports are new versions of the compiled programs for the stable branch.
http://wiki.debian.org/Backports
You are running Debian stable because you prefer the stable Debian tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: The software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. That is where backports come in.
Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, eg security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution.
When you say "Multimedia-backports repository" you are referring to the deb-multimedia repository (old debian multimedia) or is there a specific backport from the official Debian Multimedia team. Heh, heh, I know the name is misleading but they are not the same.
The truth is, if there is an official Debian Multimedia Backports repo, could you tell me what it is. I have never read anything about it since this team indicates that they upload their backports to the official repo and if there was a specific one I would like to know what it is to see what is in it.
Yes it is the deb-multimedia repo, but in its "backports branch", so to speak, it hosts some of the software from the deb-multimedia repo but a bit more up-to-date. In my blog I have spoken several times about him.
I'll give you the link to the main web of the repo, where it is interesting to visit the Packages section to know what packages we have in Multimedia Backports:
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/
Not that there is a lot of software, but something is something. VLC and XBMC stand out.
Greetings 😉
Thanks, I already knew about the multmedia repo but I didn't know that it had a backports branch.
I had seen your blog a few times but I had never noticed the topic of repos since I already used the multimedia one.
Thanks anyway 🙂
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze-backports main
Interesting news. From what you understand thanks to the article and Tony, you can install software a little more updated to our stable version.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think this will change anything, it just says that the backports become part of the main file, this influences that the mirrors will have backports and other internal processes that will be easier, but not in the program versions that users have.
I'm not really sure, but if you add backports, you have newer software. Now they will come by default, then if there is a change, from old to new software (including the kernel with its energy savings, etc), that changes a lot.
I imagine that if you have backports in the souces.list, the installed programs would be updated, with newer versions.
sources.list *
excellent, and it's true elav, will it be the pressure?
I believe that Debian is recovering in health, as we say in my town. They obviously fear the untimely exit of their users, this happens just weeks after the stable version of Debian is released. They know that the arrival of Gnome does not guarantee the permanence of its long-suffering users. Cheers
"They obviously fear the untimely exit of their users" Are you joking? because if you mean it you are quite wrong.
suffered users? I don't think it's that bad, there is a lot of loyalty to Debian, but knowing that it is a community and it is guaranteed that it will always be free, not subject to the will of a company or a millionaire. We have all suffered the Gnome thing, where are they going to go? I get by with KDE, and when I'm nostalgic, I use MATE
Sounds like a good idea to make things easier and not have to do the damn apt-get -t squeeze-backports install package_name or apt-get -t wheezy-backports install package_name in the future :)
Waiting to see said done ..
Regards!
I don't know why you have to put Tanglu in all the debian news. Also, if I'm not wrong, a few months ago Debian has been giving a lot of importance to backports.
I ask you the same question, without wanting to be heavy. I don't know why many still don't understand what a blog is about? Is there a rule that says how to write a blog post? I simply bring Tanglu to the subject because it has a very similar objective to that of this news. Also friend, I am warning from now (in case someone has a problem with Tanglu): If everything goes well in the next few weeks the first versions will come out and of course, I am going to use them .. so articles will rain on this distro ..
Thanks for the elav information, to wait for Tanglu's exit and, of course, your comments that are always well valued, do you know if versions with Xfce will come, or will it only be KDE and Gnome?
I see that; if nothing has even come out and there are already "raining" articles about that mega distro. I think that the distros here are by fashions, a few weeks ago everything was solus, now it will be the turn to den tang….
The truth is, they become heavy.
That usually happens 😛
Maybe you didn't have to see when I used xfce ...
instead of deb + kde was deb + xfce: p
at least the article titles no longer include so much "in debian"
xDDD
Dropped the number of bugs from 100 to release wheezy…. we get closer.
http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy&merged=ign&rc=1
Wheezy is desired ...