Just made a mistake, I build the packages using:
apt-get source -t unstable rosegarden
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc
2009/4/2 Ricardo . <[email protected]>
>
> > 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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