Re: Wondering how long it usually takes for a package to move from stable-p-u
On Thu 11 Apr 2019 at 10:12:05 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 11 Apr 2019 at 09:01:37 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 09:51:11AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 08:20 +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > > > And is there any way I can install just that one package as the
> > > > > newer
> > > > > version on debian stretch without changing the repos to testing for
> > > > > the
> > > > > whole OS?
> > > >
> > > > I guess that the best you can do is to build your own package from
> > > > the debian source material.
> > >
> > > Alternatively, if the package has been updated in testing you
> > > can download the .deb and install it manually with 'dpkg -i'.
> >
> > ABSOLUTELY NOT.
> >
> > Do not EVER install a package from "testing" on a "stable" release.
> >
> > If there is a backport of the package, you may use that.
> >
> > If there is not, you may attempt to backport it yourself. This may be
> > easy, difficult, or impossible, depending on the build dependencies of
> > the package.
> >
> > If a backport is not feasible, you may build the package manually from
> > upstream sources and install in /opt or /usr/local.
>
> With the *occasional* exception of dependency-less packages like a
> foo-doc package (reading ahead of the game) or a font. For example,
> I installed fonts-hack-ttf on all my machines, both wheezy and jessie,
> as soon as I saw it mentioned here (by Gene I believe). Not the best
> for Unicode glyphs, but wonderful for the eyes.
I'd extend this latitude a bit further to packages that have
dependencies satisified by stable and which provide something
stable doesn't. For example, libsane-hpaio
--
Brian..
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