[Tfug] debian quandary: install 3rd-party deb, upgrade to etch or sid, or compile upstream?

[Nick Lopez]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:54:24PM -0700, t takahashi wrote:
> i run sarge, with a few packages that are from a previous etch or a
> previous sid.  no problems for years until now.
> 
> there are just a few packages that i need new versions for.  i can no
> longer pull them from etch or sid because they would pull in something
> fundamental, like a new version of libc.
  Yup, there's a LOT of messy working going on in Debian right now.  More
g++ shinanigans and other stuff you don't want to get in the middle of.

> upstream for one of the packages has a deb for sarge.  if i put that
> site in sources.list and install the package, will it destroy my
> existing version?  will there be a way to go back if i uninstall it? 
> will there be a way to go forward to sid if i decide to upgrade to
> that?
  How could it distroy anything? It will replace it, but you can always
remove this version and reinstall the Debian version, that's the whole point
of having a packaging system.

  - Nick Lopez
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