Ive had the same problems and unfortunatly Ive never found the ones I need in backports.
For example there isnt even a newer version of Shotwell in backports so Im stuck on 0.6. Currently having problems with not being able to use a modern version of WebKitGTK because of the age of libsoup & glib. This is why im keen on the proposed 'Continuously Usable Testing' distro although I think it needs a more "stable " sounding name perhaps something like "Debian Rolling" Sent from iPhone On 25 Sep 2011, at 14:56, green <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Panen wrote at 2011-09-25 06:31 -0500: >> Some packages i want to install on my Squeeze machine just don't have >> the right dependencies or packages, so i take what i need from >> testing. Am i going to bork my installation? > > Perhaps, but probably not (according to my experience). Use packages from > backports instead, if available. > > I mix stable/testing/unstable often with very little trouble. But I am > careful about what packages I upgrade, and my system is always either "mostly > stable" or "mostly testing". Generally, stand-alone packages can be upgraded > without any trouble, but core packages should be left alone. The more > reverse dependencies a package has, the more careful you should be about > upgrading it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
