backports not supported as a software channel

Binary package hint: apturl

While adding arbitrary software repositories via apturl may be a security risk, adding standard Ubuntu repositories such as karmic-backports (and potentially karmic-proposed, etc) would not seem to be.

This could be done through apt:foo?channel=karmic-backports if karmic-backports were added to /usr/share/app-install/channels

New versions of upstream packages can often not be added to the current release, leaving many upstream projects resorting to their own PPA rather than focusing on the next release and getting backported. This could result in a much cleaner install path.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 28 06:10:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: apturl 0.4.1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: apturl
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64