On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:49 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Lisi writes: > > > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 > > > year support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that > > > Debian is going the other way. > > > > Support beyond Stable is on a "best effort" basis. If enough people > > were willing to actually work on it I'm sure a "long term support" > > version would be welcome. Are you volunteering? You don't have to be a > > programmer to help with Debian. > > That's true, building new packages can be done based on old packages. I > don't have the howto at hand, but it's very easy to do. I mark this mail > as a todo ;) and hopefully I can add a howto within the next days, > please don't stone me, if I forget to do this ;). > > - Ralf
apt-get source PACKAGENAME sudo apt-get build-dep PACKAGENAME (or su, if you don't have sudo installed) mv -vi PACKAGENAME-1.0/ PACKAGENAME-2.0 wget source_from_origin_place | tar xvj (or whatever) cd SOURCE_DIR # edit debian/changelog -> PACKAGENAME (version) e.g. unstable; urgency=low # edit debian/rules -> if needed libtoolize --force --copy --automake aclocal autoreconf debuild -b -us -uc sudo dpkg -i ../PACKAGENAME.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1340637524.1349.77.camel@localhost.localdomain