On May 25, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Nicolas Couture <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:59 PM, David Filion <[email protected]> wrote:
> A simple question for you regular debian user's, where can I find newer 
> packages, in particular amavisd-new, for Debian 7?  It ships with a 2 year 
> old version.
> 
> I know I could install from source but I want to avoid that path.
> 
> You can build your own package or install sid's amavisd-new on wheezy which 
> is 2.9.
> _______________________________________________

Hey David

the answer would depend on which release of Debian you are currently running. 
and if it is available in backports for your current release.

easy answer is to pull from sid and hope depencies do not drive you off a cliff.

Also mixing releases from what i have seen if generally not a good idea as they 
tend to introduce other dependancies which seem to always come back and bite 
you.

Step:2 is to try and rebuild the package for your version of Debian assuming it 
is a simple configure make and make install but looking at amivsd-new deps i 
would not hold my breath as they have introduced the redis key store and some 
other major changes.

Now personally i tend to build the package for my current release or find 
someone else who has. Just keep in mind the debian guys usually update when 
there is a good reason to do so and you get the security fixes if and when they 
come out.

If you are interested debian has a decent how-to on re-building existing 
packages from src debs and this is pretty simple and straight forward todo.

Later,

Nick
 
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