About backports, I found some issues there

Specifically, I had devuan debootstrap installed and upgrading would result in getting a debian version

Also, not sure if it's the expected behaviour but when using the devuan backports repo a dist-upgrade would pull in packages from there too

On Monday, January 4, 2016 10:33 PM, Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> wrote:
> On 04/01/16 06:52, Go Linux wrote:
>> Why are you merging the debian, backports and dmo repos? Is there a
>> way to separate them? I have rarely used backports and always
>> downloaded what I need from dmo when I first install and then disable
>> it. dmo can really break things if you're not careful.
>
> We are currently merging dmo - was mostly done as a test for amprolla. I
> can ask nextime to remove that if it is causing breakages or other
> problems.
>
> As for locking to specific versions, that *is* what pinning is meant
> for. Not merging dmo won't prevent an upgrade causing a broken debian
> version to be pulled in instead.
>
> We are NOT merging backports or updates or security updates. These will
> all be handled as separate repositories. If you want backports (or
> stable updates) you have to specify them in your /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> We'll of course need to document this in our "getting started with
> Devuan" guide which has yet to be written.
>

> Regards,
>     Daniel.
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