Author: intrigeri Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Old-Topics: [Tails-dev] Debian GNU/Linux backports Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Debian GNU/Linux backports
> Some software is installed from Debian GNU/Linux side, with an explicit exception. > That makes them susceptible to unexpected changes and I wonder if it would be
> advisable to add a backports.list in addition to sid.list to be able to get more
> stable and yet newer packages.
Tails 3.6 will come with stretch-backports enabled by default.
We now fetch some packages from there and I don't expect it'll change
until Tails 4.0 (Buster) is released.