On Dec 5, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Roy Keene <fos...@rkeene.org> wrote:
> 
> Version 2.2 is in Debian testing, has been for a while.

Thank you for chasing this on the back-channel, Roy.  It’s good to know that 
there is a binary version of Fossil 2.x in Debian current already, if you 
absolutely cannot use one of the official binaries or build from source.  (e.g. 
on Raspbian (thus ARM) and no space to install build tools.)

> until the next stable release, the only real way to get a
> newer fossil is to either install it from testing

It’s good to have that confirmed from the project, rather than what we had 
before, which is just past-is-prologue speculation.

Unfortunately, it looks rather complicated to install a single package from 
testing:

    
https://serverfault.com/questions/22414/how-can-i-run-debian-stable-but-install-some-packages-from-testing


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