On 12/08/2016 02:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Martin T wrote: >> let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from >> Debian "testing": > > Let's not say that. > > Let's instead say "I am running jessie, but jessie's version of weechat > (1.0.1-1) is missing some features I need. What should I do?" > > The next step then is to look at jessie-backports. There is a newer > version of weechat (1.5-1~bpo8+1) in jessie-backports. So try that > one. > > If that one STILL isn't new enough for you, then you have two choices: > > 1) Install weechat yourself from upstream source code. > 2) Upgrade your entire system to stretch (testing). >
0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without additional efforts.
