Re: Updating without Apt

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Updating without Apt
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:23:58 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87lke2p4ch.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 4685B17B.4070407@gmail.com> (Andrew Gray's message of "Fri\, 29 Jun 2007 18\:27\:23 -0700")
References: <[🔎] 4685B17B.4070407@gmail.com>

Andrew Gray writes:
> I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to use
> software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use. I'm quite
> content with my system at the moment. My problem comes when a piece of
> software that I use with frequency is updated by the developers in a major
> way. The Debian repositories do not reflect this change, and likely won't
> for some time.

> The software in question is emacs22.

toncho/~ apt-cache madison emacs
     emacs | 22.0.99+1-1 | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main Packages
     emacs |  21.4a+1-5 | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
   emacs21 |  21.4a+1-5 | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Sources
   emacs22 | 22.0.99+1-1 | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main Sources

-- 
John Hasler

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