> Do you actually manualy backport packages from, say testing or unstable,
> or do you simply do some pining?
I found that what works best for me is first to try grabing the
sources from the package I want from Debian unstable and compile it. I
simply use:
apt-source -t unstable rosegarden
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc
If the package I need isn't so up-to-date on Sid, I build a simple
.deb package from the vanilla source code. I'm trying to understand better
how the whole debian packaging system works to start building correctly deb
packages, so I can help you guys with this.
I think backporting packages this way is safer than using Pinning
(Pinning is better for a Testing/Unstable comb.). I must say, though, that
I'm thinking on the average user. Debian Testing is a perfect system for
those who know how it works, how to deal with broken packages and so. The
majority of the users that start using a GNU/Linux system wants principally
a working and stable system, they are traumatized from buggy systems like
windows. That's why I'm installing Debian Stable on the computers at my
University and compiling manually the latest versions from Ardour,
Rosegarden and Supercollider. The first system crash or broken system due to
poor package handling would make many of them lose their interest on a
open-source system. It's quite a big responsability, and I only trust on
Debian Stable for this task.
Ricardo G. Herdt
2009/4/2 Loz <[email protected]>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Could you name or detail one situation where you would need a *full*
> > testing system? Similarly can you think of any software that could be a
> > problem not to have at the latest version all the time? Or is it just
> > the fact that using testing allows to have updates on everything at once
> > and not have to do individual updates?
>
>
> Yes. That's pretty much it.
>
> Also, and I admit, I'm most likely in a minority here, I don't just
> use my laptop for music, but various other things. Sticking with
> testing gives me a reasonably stable and reasonably up to date
> operating system, for anything that I may wish to do on it.
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