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There is an unofficial (afik) effort to build something like AUR for Debian. It's quite new I think. https://mpr.hunterwittenborn.com/ https://mpr.hunterwitten

There is an unofficial (afik) effort to build something like AUR for Debian. It's quite new I think. https://mpr.hunterwittenborn.com/ https://mpr.hunterwittenborn.com/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638107) But you don't need it for things like the latest GCC or OpenJDK as stuff like that is usually available form the Testing or Unstable Debian branches.

zozbot234 5y ago
If you're running Debian Stable, using the backports repo is generally preferable to installing packages from the testing or unstable channels. The latter will give you an unsupported configuration that might be broken to begin with, or break without warning in the future as stuff gets upgraded further.
- geokon 5y ago
  I just checked and `openjdk-15-jdk` `openjdk-16-jdk` are only on sid/unstable - which `openjdk-17-jdk` is only on testing. So yeah, the only alternative is mixing version which is playing with fire. These seems like pretty basic distro problems, no? Since no one seems bothered I figured I was missing some obvious solution.
  - zozbot234 5y ago
    The bullseye-backports repo is just being started, so these packages will most likely be available there sometime in the future.
  - still_grokking 5y ago
    Testing is (almost) Stable right now. They included a JDK17 pre-release so an upgrade though backports in a month will be easier than. (It's in the release notes linked here). Same reason why v15 and v16 are only in Unstable right now: They where not meant to be released for Debian 11, so removed from Testing. Usually Testing and Unstable are mostly in sync. Besides the packages in Unstable that are causing serous trouble of course. But right now Testing is mostly identical to the (still next) Stable Debian 11. So it makes no sense judging availability of packages in Testing right now until the release is out.

zozbot234 5y ago

If you're running Debian Stable, using the backports repo is generally preferable to installing packages from the testing or unstable channels. The latter will give you an unsupported configuration that might be broken to begin with, or break without warning in the future as stuff gets upgraded further.

geokon 5y ago
I just checked and `openjdk-15-jdk` `openjdk-16-jdk` are only on sid/unstable - which `openjdk-17-jdk` is only on testing. So yeah, the only alternative is mixing version which is playing with fire. These seems like pretty basic distro problems, no? Since no one seems bothered I figured I was missing some obvious solution.
- zozbot234 5y ago
  The bullseye-backports repo is just being started, so these packages will most likely be available there sometime in the future.
- still_grokking 5y ago
  Testing is (almost) Stable right now. They included a JDK17 pre-release so an upgrade though backports in a month will be easier than. (It's in the release notes linked here). Same reason why v15 and v16 are only in Unstable right now: They where not meant to be released for Debian 11, so removed from Testing. Usually Testing and Unstable are mostly in sync. Besides the packages in Unstable that are causing serous trouble of course. But right now Testing is mostly identical to the (still next) Stable Debian 11. So it makes no sense judging availability of packages in Testing right now until the release is out.