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Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu?

Posted Sep 10, 2011 9:43 UTC (Sat) by pedrib (guest, #65908)
In reply to: Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu? by imgx64
Parent article: Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu?

Sorry, but you are wrong.

I'm running stable - although I have some very few key packages (non-free firmware, virtualbox and wireless hacking tools) from stable-backports, testing and unstable.

I'm sure there are plenty people more as me. The simple fact that stable-backports exist can attest this, not to mention the bugs which are filed against desktop software by people who use stable. All bug reports done through the reportbug tool have a "apt prefers" section which tells which release they are using.

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Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu?

Posted Sep 10, 2011 20:32 UTC (Sat) by przemoc (subscriber, #67594) [Link]

Same here, i.e. stable with some changes.

Well, not exactly same, because over time not only key packages have been upgraded in my box (like tmux from backports, nvidia-* from testing/wheezy), but even less important ones. OTOH due to bumped versions of dependencies in testing+ (like in case of okular, it needed though lowering KDE4 ver requirement and removing some unsupported &jovie; in index.docbook) or lack of maintainership (like in case of pan), you're sometimes enforced to do your own builds. I also use external repos (for virtualbox or google-chrome).

I don't like adding repos of testing+ in stable explicitly, so I've crafted handy oneliner for getting all packages built from given source one.

PKG=git REL=wheezy ARCH=amd64 PKGHOST="http://packages.debian.org" MIRROR="ftp.pl.debian.org"; wget -q "$PKGHOST/source/$REL/$PKG" -O - | sed '/.*<dt><a href="/!d;s,,'"$PKGHOST"',;s,'"$REL"'/,&'"$ARCH"'/,;s,".*,/download,' | xargs wget -q -O - | sed '\,'"$MIRROR"',!d;s,[^"]*",,;s,".*,,' | xargs -n1 wget

It will surely break with next upgrade of debian sites look, but works for now (for me).