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Re: Is the stable/unstable split broken?



Russell Nelson schrieb:
> Is Debian's stable/unstable split a broken concept?

No, if you need a _really_ stable system it's not.

[ Ways to install Python 2.0 on stable:
* (partial) upgrade to unstable
* install locally from source ]

Well, there is a third option, apt-get -b source.

Debian source package installs could be used for much more, like
very specific binary optimisations, builds with different
features/dependencies, debugging builds. (The latter already
exists in policy, though few packages use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
currently).

ciao, 2ri
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