On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:36:30AM -0400, bw wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Felix Miata wrote: > > I configured stretch-backports in sources.list, but apparently > > it has no newer mc version available. 4.8.21 is on the mirrors, so I > > downloaded > > it from a mirror and installed it with dpkg. It works fine, but now apt is > > broken
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > >From what I have read, the way to do it would be backport the necessary > pkgs yourself from testing. And the procedure for doing this is at <https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation>. The IRC bots have a simplified recipe as well, under the factoid name "simple sid backport" or "ssb" for short.