Comment 20 for bug 888665

I think just ignoring NotAutomatic is definitely better than the current
situation, so if the other's a lot harder and ignoring could get done soon, I
definitely don't want to block progress.

My theory is that given that support for backports is different than
release/updates/security, I think the pocket should be design to minimize the
amount of interdependency to that users only get what they explicitly asked
for plus the least additional depends from backports that can be reasonably
managed.

That's consistent with why we made backports NotAutomatic to begin with. I
don't think users should enable backports and then eat the entire pocket.
They should get the new stuff (plus updates to that stuff) they explicitly ask
for and ~nothing else.

I'm not implementing it though, so I will repeat for emphasis that ignoring is
WAY better than the current situation and I don't want perfect to block
better.