I've never used any unofficial debs, but a few weeks ago the Debian Weekly News announced unofficial backports of newer versions of mozilla, OpenOffice and a couple other packages. This seemed somewhat official and somewhat part of, or somewhat condoned by, Debian.
Any comments on this particular set of debs? Vineet Kumar said: > * Ole-Christian S. Hagenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030312 06:23 > PST]: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:07:23PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: >> > Hello everybody, >> > >> > I heard of a friend there is a way to get a newer >> > version than 1.0.0 in the stable Debian - but I can't >> > find it. >> > Can anybody tell me what to add to the >> > /etc/apt/sources.list ? >> >> A good start would be to take a look at <URL:http://apt-get.org/> >> which is a list of unofficial apt sources. > > Note that "unofficial apt sources" means precisely "not in Debian". > Sure, you can download stuff in .deb format, and you can use apt to do > it, but that doesn't make it part of Debian. Woody (Debian stable) has > 1.0.0. That's it. > > good times, > Vineet > -- > http://www.doorstop.net/ > -- > --Nick Moffitt > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
