also sprach Aniruddha <mailingdotl...@gmail.com> [2009.05.20.0852 +0200]:
> Looking forward to the release of your book :) What about rebuilding
> packages with apt-get source / dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b? Is
> this also possible (instead of building a Debian package from
> scratch)?

If you do that on a stable system, then in most cases, the package
should install fine on the stable system.

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