I didn't saw the question sent twice and answered here. As answered in [1], I think Luke doesn't need such complicated things to get his update. To my understanding, just adding stretch-proposed-updates to /etc/apt/sources.list will solve the requirement.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/04/msg00470.html Regards, Pierre Le jeu. 11 avr. 2019 à 15:02, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> a écrit : > > 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. >