Activate backports

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From time to time its necessary to not follow the backports rules, like a package needs to be in testing or a version needs to be in Debian. If you think you have one of those cases, please talk to us on the list before upload the package. We wish you a happy stretch Alex, on behalf of the Backports Team. Debian Backports. Introduction You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the Debian stable tree.

Where to start Users should start at the Instructions page. Contributors should start Contribute page. If you want to know which packages are available via backports. News RSS Atom. Please ensure to follow the rules of those distributions yes, that means you can't upload packages to bullseye-backports now that are not in testing ; stretch-backports discontinued Following the rules oldstable backports was discontinued some time ago, but we never announced that offically.

Posted Fri Aug 6 Thats in sync with the - official - security support for oldstable BSA Security Advisories We plan to switch the security-announce mailinglist to keyring based authentication, which means that every DD and DM is able to publish its own BSA advisories.

We will send out a seperate announcement after the switch happened - and of course update the documentation Statistics For packages backported from buster, so far we have different source packages in stretch-backports. Thanks Thanks have to go out to all people making backports possible, and that includes up front the backporters themself who do upload the packages, track and update them on a regular basis, but also the buildd team making the autobuilding possible and the ftp masters for creating the suites in the first place.

Happy Backporting! Alex and Rhonda - backports. Posted Tue Jul 16 BSA Security Update for openvpn. Bernhard Schmidt uploaded new packages for openvpn which fixed the following security problems: CVE It was discovered that openvpn did not properly handle the rollover of packet identifiers. This would allow an authenticated remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash. This would allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash.

This would allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash, or potentially leak sensitive information like the user's proxy password. CVE Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle some x extensions. For the jessie-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 2. Enabling old-stable-sloppy-backports is near identical to stable-backports, with two notable exceptions. First, in sources. Rather than using:. Second, Packages in backports-sloppy are provided "as-is" and have no official support.

Like old-stable-backports, old-stable-backports-sloppy is taken offline one year after a new Debian release has been made. To receive announcements about security updates for Debian Backports, subscribe to the debian-backports-announce mailing list. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

Replacing release with the current distribution you are using precise for Now the next steps will depend on whether you want apt to always use packages from the backports or whether you want to only use the backports only when manually specified. Ubuntu For example, if you're using Source: Ubuntu Backports - Ubuntu Wiki.

Click the Ubuntu button on the launcher and search for "Software Sources". Search for "Software" if using This should enable the Extras for your Ubuntu Version. After this just click on the CLOSE Button and it should let you know that it needs to update because of the changes you made.

Note that in the Updates tab, the Backport option is the 4th one in there. It's the one that says Unsupported updates. To activate the backports Which is automatically enabled since And look for a commented line that mentions the keyword backport, should look something like raring-backports for In this case it looks like this:. NOTE - If the lines are not found, simply add them and change the name of the version to the one you are using as explained above.