[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] backports enabled by default in jessie

[Scott Howard]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello bitcoin team, please see the discussion on debian-devel that is
> very related to many of the discussion on this list. The start of the
> thread is included below, and is archived here:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00406.html

False alarm, backports being enabled was a bug. They will not be
enabled by default.

> Joseph Bisch:
> I thought you had to block packages from migrating to testing in order
> to prevent them from ending up in stable. And since backports are
> based mostly on testing, the block also prevents those packages from
> being in backports. Has anything changed with respect to that?

No, nothing has changed, but people were wondering if it could be
changed if backports was enabled by default. Perhaps this discussion
should move to the backports mailing list. Something to think about
post jessie.
~Scott