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Use Multiple Debian Versions At the Same Time
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@Bob: While your commentary is accurate the information Juliet posted is useful a lot of the time. It shows how you can sometimes (not always) grab something from testing and use it in stable. No, its not 100% but I could see where it could be a real timesaver.
The problem with that approach is that in almost all cases it will try to update the libc6 which is not a very good idea. The approach is much better suited for testing+unstable(+experimental) rather than stable+ anything.
If you want newer packages in Debian Stable, you need to either use the Backports package archive [1] or compile from source. Mixing Stable with Testing or Unstable is a very bad idea.
If you want newer packages in Debian Testing, you should read this HowTo document:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=15612
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Backports
If you want newer packages in Debian Testing, you should read this HowTo document:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=15612
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Backports
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And it works great.... except when it doesn't.
But that's OK, because you can always make do without it.