On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:51 +0100, Niall Sheridan wrote:
> > If your staying with warty, ub-backports is handy. But I've never had a
> > problems with hoary.
>> The ubuntu backports packages are crack-addled and _will_ cause all
> manner of breakage when you upgrade to hoary. They've already started
> backporting things to hoary and it's not even been released.
> Don't do it :(
Ah ok so. I was only using -bp to get firefox-1.0 when I was running
warty. Removed it when I went to hoary and never had any problems.
YMMV, as they say :)
Dave
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