Re: Using unstable for certain packages
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:54:17 +0200
Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > > Personally I like the about two-year stable release schedule. It is
> > > long enough
> >
> > I appreciate knowing that our setup will not break due to this but
> > also compile and download various packages like libreoffice and
> > xfce-4.10.
> >
> > Now I would not expect libreoffice to be packaged but xfce-4.10 had a
>
> ??
>
I meant that I would not expect libreoffice 4 in stable but xfce-4.10
would seem sane.
> $ rmadison libreoffice
> libreoffice | 1:3.3.2-2~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source
> libreoffice | 1:3.3.3-4~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64
> libreoffice | 1:3.4.3-3~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source
> libreoffice | 1:3.5.4-7~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | source, sparc
> libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg-3~bpo60+2 | squeeze-backports | source, amd64, armel, i386, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390
> libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 | wheezy | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
> libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 | sid | source, mips, sparc
> libreoffice | 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-1 | sid | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x
> libreoffice | 1:3.6.5-1 | experimental | source, s390, s390x
> libreoffice | 1:4.0.2~rc1-1 | experimental | source, powerpc
> libreoffice | 1:4.0.2~rc2-2 | experimental | source, amd64, armel, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386
>
> And yes, 4.0.x will also be in wheezy-backports when it's time for that.
> Using it from "unstable" is bad, because it'll also give you a loads
> of libs not in wheezy which might easily end up pullling a new libc6 etc.
You can install it very easily as a separately verifiable .deb package
(actually many but the wildcards bring it to about 4 commands).
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