Jon Eisenstein wrote: > Although I haven't tried it myself, I know many people have used another > alternative and have had no major problems: Change sources.list to point > to unstable, apt-get install X, and change sources.list back to > stable. Possibly, since this works when done in this way, maybe it could > be automated somehow.
Apt 0.4 allows just this, you use something like: apt-get install foo=unstable and it will grab unstable's version of package foo. Of course, apt 0.4 is not even in unstable yet. -- see shy jo

