Re: Using unstable for certain packages

[Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>]

> Then again, if you build from source, you'll lose the automatic upgrade
> feature provided by apt/aptitude.
> 
> Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe so. There are some debian source building tools and mepis
archives are usable perhaps best with pinning. I plan to experiment
with the latter but have no experience of it. I pinned experimental
debians firefox but it broke after a few updates. I expect mepis repos
to actually be more workable as they use the stable base and bild new
packages.

Incidentally. I do wonder if debian stable should accelerate some
packages which follow a more stable dev cycle like xfce-4.10 where it
has already been well tested.


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