On 2017-12-27 22:00:41 +0000, Patrick Byrne wrote: > I would be happy to use the 2.6 branch in buster, but I can't see it in > synaptic. Are you suggesting I could move from buster (testing) to sid > (unstable) ? Can I add the sid repositories to buster without moving to sid > completely? Apologies for my ignorance.
You can track both buster (testing) and unstable, and prefer buster via apt pinning. See apt_preferences(5), for instance. BTW, if 2.7.3 still has problems compared to 2.6.*, it would be nice to warn the users, at least in the Debian ChangeLog. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)