How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

[Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com]

Hello,

currently, I have a problem with frozen etch: In mid november, I filed a 
bug report to kdevelop (the bug was about debugging problems) which was 
fixed at the end of january. Thanks to the maintainer for that !

But the bug is fixed in kdevelop 4:3.4.0-1 which won't come into etch 
(Quote from debian-release) :
"As this is a new minor upstream release, we will not unfreeze this 
package."

Great. So I have a bugfix for a problem that really drives us crazy here 
but it won't come into the etch distribution. As I see it, I have these 
possibilities:

1) Don't insist on etch (stable). Just stay with testing and wait until 
testing isn't frozen anymore.
  I won't do this because of several reasons (takes too long, I don't want 
testing any more and so on )
2) Use apt pinning.
  I have no experience with this. Won't that mean that in the long run I 
will draw the whole KDE stuff from testing into stable ?
3) Compile from source.
  Hmmm. No problem. Would (IMHO) mean to install lots of *-dev packages, 
but that's ok...
4) Anything I didn't think of...

Now I'm sure that some people here have similar problems. What would you 
do, what advice can you give ?

Regards,

Markus Grunwald
Softwaredevelopment

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