Re: cannot install from backports
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:04:55PM -0400, Brian Cary wrote:
> I run this:
> *apt -t stretch-backports install gimp*
> And my newly installed Debian 9.9 replies:
>
> *gimp is already the newest version (2.8.18-1+deb9u1).0 upgraded, 0 newly
> installed, 0 to remove and 153 not upgraded.*
> Which is of course *WRONG*, because we just looked in Packages and verified
> that 2.10 *is* in testing.
Just because a package is in testing doesn't mean a stretch-backport
exists for it.
There are no stretch-backports or jessie-backports packages of gimp at
this time, according to judd in IRC.
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