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

[t takahashi]

i said apt-get.org, but i don't know about that.  i meant snapshot.debian.org.


On 11/17/05, t takahashi <gambarimasu at gmail.com> wrote:
> so i don't want to upgrade to etch or unstable except on a test box?
> ah, i was looking forward to the new sig-aware apt and some new
> programs.  but if you guys say it's messy, i'd better pay attention.
>
> this is kind of making me look wistfully at ubuntu.  anybody know if
> debian will go to the 6 month release model any time soon, or is
> sarge's lifecycle the best indication of etch's?
>
> the packages i have my eye on are the sig-aware apt, new versions of
> important file archivers and crypto type stuff (and therefore if i use
> backports.org, i want to make sure whoever puts them together knows
> what he is doing -- are all the packages there done by just one
> person?), 10 or so  minor new packages that i don't absolutely need,
> and mozilla-firefox.  i can imagine sarge getting increasingly patchy
> if i keep looking for and installing new versions of these things.
>
> it's a relief to know i can just install the upstream deb, though.  i
> was worried since it doesn't exist in sarge proper, so i didn't think
> i could get back to the older etch version that i am running now.
> maybe i just have to use apt-get.org or something and get the version
> i have now.
>
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