Steve Litt writes:
> Let's say that, in six months from now, Debian's uselessd package is
> ready for prime time. Would there be any reason some enterprising
> person couldn't simply copy it to another repository (hopefully a
> trusted one), so that people could add that repository and thus
> install uselessd on Jessie?

Yes, of course that could be done.  The name of the appropriate
repository is Debian/Unstable, also known as Sid.  The package could
then be backported and made available for installation in Jessie on
backports.debian.org.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA


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