Backports and others

[infestor]

i'm familiar with debian's stable, testing, unstable and backports concepts. but in lmde's case, what are main - upstream - import - backport - romeo?

[äxl]

Debian's backports isn't LMDE's backport.
Stable, testing and unstable are the releases. Backports offers ports for "older" releases.
The sections are main (both), upstream (Debian's contrib) and import (non-free).
LMDE also has backport and romeo. But they are rarely used.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia ... ml#s-pools

[killer de bug]

Debian backports :

backports: This repository provides more recent versions than stable for some software. It is mainly intended for users of stable who need a newer version of a particular package.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian

[craigevil]

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[djk44883]

Stable, testing and unstable are the releases. Backports offers ports for "older" releases.

testing and unstable are never released - they are distributions, not releases. backports are for stable releases. Quoted from http://backports.debian.org

Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates) in a stable environment so that they will run without new libraries (whenever it is possible) on a Debian stable distribution