Re: lenny-backports vs. flashplugin-nonfree
Mikhail Ramendik schrieb am Freitag, den 12. September 2008:
> 2008/9/12 Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>
>
> > Gerfried Fuchs schrieb am Freitag, den 12. September 2008:
> >
> > > * Peter Mann <Peter.Mann@tuke.sk> [2008-09-12 11:18:57 CEST]:
> > > > when we can use lenny backports? lenny is now frozen, but maybe we can
> > > > backport some special packages, e.g. flashplugin-nonfree
> > >
> > > Please read the guidelines again. When the package hits testing, the
> > > backport to the previous stable can be done. So when flashplugin-nonfree
> > > hits squeeze the backport to lenny-backports can get uploaded.
> > Not exactly. There is an exception for flashplugin-nonfree as this got
> > removed from stable and testing. But I won't create a lenny backports
> > archive
> > until lenny is released.
> >
>
> What course of action would you recommend for a current lenny user?
> Manualluy downloading the package from unstable? (Adding the unstable
> repository is probably not a good idea if one wants to stay with lenny?)
Download the package from unstable and do a dpkg -i, or use pinning for that
package.
Alex
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