Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus?

[hobbes@easynet.be (Rémi Letot)]

Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@fuckmicrosoft.com> writes:

> * hobbes@easynet.be (Rémi Letot) wrote:
>
>> Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@fuckmicrosoft.com> writes:
>>> Or do it the Debian-way:
>>> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta
>
>> Not updated since oort is in unstable. A better way now is to add
>
> Manoj's current version is gnus_5.9.0-0.CVS.2003.01.02.1_all.deb at his
> Debian homepage.

Argh, I should have checked. There was a period when this package was
not updated, so I dropped the source in sources.list.

>> unstable in sources.list and pin to stable. That way you can upgrade
>> just the packages you want to the unstable version, like gnus.
>
> Sorry, I don't agree. apt-pinning is pretty worthless these days because
> too many packages depend on the new libc6 in unstable which makes it
> quite useless to get Sid-packages for Woody as you certainly don't want
> to import libc6-2.3.1-x from Sid to Woody. Okay, the Gnus package is an
> exception concerning this dependency.

The question was precisely about gnus.

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