BackportsPromotion

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

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion


CategorySpec

BackportsPromotion (last edited 2008-08-06 16:22:57 by localhost)