Re: Am i playing with fire?
Ive had the same problems and unfortunatly Ive never found the ones I need in backports.
For example there isnt even a newer version of Shotwell in backports so Im stuck on 0.6.
Currently having problems with not being able to use a modern version of WebKitGTK because of the age of libsoup & glib.
This is why im keen on the proposed 'Continuously Usable Testing' distro although I think it needs a more "stable " sounding name perhaps something like "Debian Rolling"
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On 25 Sep 2011, at 14:56, green <greenfreedom10@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Panen wrote at 2011-09-25 06:31 -0500:
>> Some packages i want to install on my Squeeze machine just don't have
>> the right dependencies or packages, so i take what i need from
>> testing. Am i going to bork my installation?
>
> Perhaps, but probably not (according to my experience). Use packages from
> backports instead, if available.
>
> I mix stable/testing/unstable often with very little trouble. But I am
> careful about what packages I upgrade, and my system is always either "mostly
> stable" or "mostly testing". Generally, stand-alone packages can be upgraded
> without any trouble, but core packages should be left alone. The more
> reverse dependencies a package has, the more careful you should be about
> upgrading it.
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