Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

On 12/08/2016 08:53 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > On 08/12/16 16:27, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from >> testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without >> additional efforts. > > That's

Re: Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

> 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from > testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without > additional efforts. The great debian-reference has a guide to doing that:

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

Hi there On 08/12/16 16:27, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without additional efforts. That's what I do. I'm rather blunt about it; 1. Does it compile? 2. Does it

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

On 12/08/2016 02:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Martin T wrote: >> let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from >> Debian "testing": > > Let's not say that. > > Let's instead say "I am running jessie, but jessie's version of weechat

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > > # apt-get install -t testing weechat [...] > BAD! BAD! BAD! Somewhat disagree: not really bad, but definitely dangerous. Whoever does this should look out for some breakage

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

On 2016-12-08, Martin T wrote: > Hi, > > let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from > Debian "testing": > > # apt-get install -t testing weechat > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Martin T wrote: > let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from > Debian "testing": Let's not say that. Let's instead say "I am running jessie, but jessie's version of weechat (1.0.1-1) is missing some features I need. What should

potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

Hi, let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from Debian "testing": # apt-get install -t testing weechat Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils libc-bin libc-dev-bin