On Monday 14 February 2011 15:34:38 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Pidgin and > kopete were complete useless for users of stable (almost more than a > year!!!) Not if those users ran volatile. I think it took a week or two, but we eventually got an update. The backports service provides packages from testing or unstable that have been recompiled in a stable environment so they are linked with stable libraries and whot-not. The repository is configured so that you do not normally get updates from it though, which can be heck for security. I use pinning to tweak it's priority and prevent that issue (at the cost of making my system a bit more "rolling"). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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