linux-kernel - Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:16:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@...nzmann.de>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

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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