Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"
On 12/08/2016 02:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Martin T wrote:
>> let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from
>> Debian "testing":
>
> Let's not say that.
>
> Let's instead say "I am running jessie, but jessie's version of weechat
> (1.0.1-1) is missing some features I need. What should I do?"
>
> The next step then is to look at jessie-backports. There is a newer
> version of weechat (1.5-1~bpo8+1) in jessie-backports. So try that
> one.
>
> If that one STILL isn't new enough for you, then you have two choices:
>
> 1) Install weechat yourself from upstream source code.
> 2) Upgrade your entire system to stretch (testing).
>
0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from
testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without
additional efforts.
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