From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1747 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hobbes@easynet.be (=?iso-8859-15?q?R=E9mi?= Letot) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus? Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:50:16 +0100 Organization: [ posted via Easynet Belgium ] Message-ID: <87el7t3ntz.fsf@pelisse.ddts.net> References: <87vg1k8ez5.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> <87bs3bbvcl.fsf@jidanni.org> <87hed3y3gh.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org> <87hecryyc8.fsf@pelisse.ddts.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668427 12568 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:47:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:38 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feed1.news.be.easynet.net!sisyphus.news.be.easynet.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e7BcRIe53Ikaz370fNELrHEgWRQ= Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Jan 2003 21:50:16 GMT Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.100.182.208 Original-X-Trace: 1041630616 11622 [::ffff:212.100.182.208]:32852 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@be.easynet.net Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1887 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1887 Tue Jan 17 17:29:38 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1747 Archived-At: Marcus Frings writes: > * hobbes@easynet.be (Rémi Letot) wrote: > >> Marcus Frings 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. -- Rémi