Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-31 Thread sirquijote
On 29/03/13 23:31, sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote: despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
Hi, I've new to Debian, but already I've found two important packages that haven't been updated for this OS in a while: Netatalk is almost three years out of date, and Privoxy seems just as bad (I'm on 3.0.16, and 3.0.18 stable was released at the end of 2011). I was looking for a stable,

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread John Hasler
sirquijote writes: I just got a reply on another list, and it drew my attention to the fact that Debian is an LTS OS. Debian Stable is. For bleeding edge you want Unstable. I hadn't realised that would affect package availability too, so the mistake is mine. You may also want to look at

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread green
sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote at 2013-03-29 16:23 -0500: Apologies. Guess I'll just have to find a more appropriate OS. As already mentioned, squeeze-backports might help, though neither netatalk nor privoxy currently have more recent versions backported. Consider building your own backports.

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread SQ
despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re-install or

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re-install

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Dom
On 29/03/13 23:31, sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote: despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to