On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:04:55PM -0400, Brian Cary wrote: > I run this: > *apt -t stretch-backports install gimp* > And my newly installed Debian 9.9 replies: > > *gimp is already the newest version (2.8.18-1+deb9u1).0 upgraded, 0 newly > installed, 0 to remove and 153 not upgraded.* > Which is of course *WRONG*, because we just looked in Packages and verified > that 2.10 *is* in testing.
Just because a package is in testing doesn't mean a stretch-backport exists for it. There are no stretch-backports or jessie-backports packages of gimp at this time, according to judd in IRC.