Re: Adding an unstable package
> I have installed the stable version of Debian. However, I
> really need a more current version of Exim. I'd like to
> install the exim4-daemon-heavy package which is in the
> testing tree. I added:
Bad idea. You may wind up upgrading to newer versions of
exim4-daemon-heavy's prerequisites and breaking a lot of
stuff (which you may or may not have already installed).
The newer versions of programs need to be compiled against
the *installed* versions of libraries if you do not want
to break things.
This gives you two options: (1) package the thing yourself,
compiling it against the already-installed development
packages, or (2) visit http://www.backports.org, which was
setup to get you through exactly this problem.
Alexis
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