Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:16:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch |
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> it already is. But Debian Etch is stable which means there will no newer > version of git in Debian Etch. Currently it is 1.4.whatever. When the > next stable release is released, which takes some time with Debian, > there will be a newer version of git shipped with it. So for the moment > you have to a few choices to live with when you use Debian stable: > > - Use the old git version 1.4 > - Build a newer version yourself > - Use the backports or any other prebuild but up2date packages
The other choice that we developers usually make is to run either testing or unstable. "stable" is a synonym for obsolete ;-).
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