Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Koen Vermeer wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 19:13 +0100, Lee wrote:
>  
>
> > Will updates such as this continue to be added to the sarge depositories or 
> > is every software update now a manual affair? What is the best way to manage 
> > this process?
> >    
>
> I myself track testing, with packages from unstable if some bug is
> bothering me or when I feel adventurous... If there is a serious bug, I
> expect it to be fixed in stable, but I don't know if the firefox thing
> falls into that category. You could manually update firefox from the
> unstable or testing distribution (1.0.6 is in unstable now for i386).
IMHO, running a mixed system is more of a headache than it is worth. 
Apt-pinning is not receommended for the faint heart.

> Or
> you can wait and see if a new version is backported to stable
> (www.backports.org).
This is probably better than running a mixed version. Just my opinion.

raju

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