Hello! On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:55:09PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > I have Sarge running, and there's a package I particularly need: POSE. > There appears to be a POSE package in Woody, but not in Sarge. Does this > mean that POSE has been dropped and won't appear in future releases? Taken from <http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt> (big file!): |[Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:40:47 -0400] [ftpmaster: James Troup] |Removed the following packages from unstable: | | pose | 3.5-4 | hppa | pose | 3.5-6 | source, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc |pose-skins | 1.9-3 | source, all |Closed bugs: 239233 239231 | |------------------- Reason ------------------- |RoQA; orphaned, no upstream, doesn't build with gcc-3.3. |---------------------------------------------- RoQA: Request of Quality Assurance > A related question... I downloaded the .deb files for POSE and its > dependencies, and I installed each of them with 'dpkg -i'. They now > show up in dselect. I was wondering if there's a safe and reasonable > way to be able to access packages from another release automatically, > without having to wrangle the .deb files by hand...? Safe and reasonable? Not really, but you can easily mix distributions by using a method called pinning, please see <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package#s-apt-track> for starters. HTH, Flo
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