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There's now the backports service, http://backports.debian.org/ http://backports.debian.org/ where you can get newer versions of packages recompiled for stable.
by pdw 14y ago
There's now the backports service, http://backports.debian.org/ http://backports.debian.org/ where you can get newer versions of packages recompiled for stable.
- munchhausen 14y agoAnd using this service of course partially defeats the point of using Debian stable at all, at least for the packages that you install from backports.
- NegativeK 14y agoI can imagine it being more useful for things that are easily fixable/less critical. I was running a testing desktop, and X updated in a way that broke the proprietary nVidia drivers (nVidia's fault -- not Debian's.) That was quite annoying to suddenly have to fix. Those types of issues (though rare, even in testing) would be nice to avoid.