This is specifically about backport packages and how mindlessly installing backports gets into a dependency hell, along with broken functionality.
By default Debian sets backports to priority 100, whereas regular repos are at 500. So backport packages are not candidates for install in apt. Yet SSM patch manager will gleefully install these backports.
The only workaround is to add a wildcard reject for anything that's got ~bpoX+Y, so that's multiple entries for Debian9 and 10 (11 when?) and +1,2,3,etc... Haven't checked ubuntu yet.
This is specifically about backport packages and how mindlessly installing backports gets into a dependency hell, along with broken functionality.
By default Debian sets backports to priority 100, whereas regular repos are at 500. So backport packages are not candidates for install in apt. Yet SSM patch manager will gleefully install these backports.
The only workaround is to add a wildcard reject for anything that's got
~bpoX+Y, so that's multiple entries for Debian9 and 10 (11 when?) and +1,2,3,etc... Haven't checked ubuntu yet.