Thanks Glenn and others for the responses this is much more informative. It is frustrating that from the bug what appears to be just one patch higher than the current version was made and is apparently *NOT* accessible at any obvious place. Even if you don't want to make it part of the stable release if some one makes the effort to build that version: amanda (1:2.5.2p1-5) unstable; urgency=low why not keep it some where? Are these just over-written as part of squeeze development? Okay - just saw Craig's mail - I might follow that path if it's not too much work assuming I can get the source to that package if not the binary. Thanks again Andrew On 8 December 2011 10:32, Glenn McIntosh <neonsignal@memepress.org> wrote:
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:06:31 +1100, Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com> wrote:
This seems a crazyness in debian bugfixing system to me:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=amanda-client lists the latest lenny version as 1:2.5.2p1-4 (the version I am running).
Can some one explain - Why is this not released ? - Where do all these fixes go - some secret archive for debian insiders .... - How I can fix this with out : - grabbing the source and recompiling it all myself - upgrading the whole client machine to squeeze or some newer release
When you run Debian stable, you will not get package upgrades, only security fixes. Otherwise it wouldn't be stable!
Moreover, packages cannot be backported indefinitely for old releases, it would require too much work.
If you have a package that you need to upgrade, then you have several options: 1) upgrade to the latest release of Debian (might involve some down time) 2) get the package from backports.org (assuming someone has taken the trouble to backport it) 3) recompile from source and resolve any dependency issues yourself 4) get the package from a newer release by adding in both repositories, and prioritizing the older one so that everything else doesn't get upgraded too 5) just grab the .deb file from a later release in packages.debian.org and install it (this assumes all the dependencies will 'just work')
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