The Temptation of Unstable

[JoeHill]

JoeHill wrote: 

> Jamon Camisso wrote: 
> 
> > JoeHill wrote:  
> > > Just looking at a post on Debian Users about someone running Squeeze, and
> > > I see they've got XFCE 4.6 available to them, among other things.
> > > 
> > > This is very very tempting. My sources.list is already pointing to
> > > Unstable, I just can't bring myself to run the upgrade. I used to use
> > > Mandriva, so, you know... ;)
> > > 
> > > I guess what I'm hoping is that someone will convince me to take the
> > > rather risky step of updating from Testing to Unstable on my one home
> > > machine.
> > > 
> > > Especially if someone's running unstable, I would like to hear about the
> > > major and minor pitfalls, if any.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!    
> > 
> > Check out apt pinning: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning  
> 
> That looks like what I'm looking for, thanks :-)
> 
> Now, if I understand the instructions correctly, I should have all the entries
> I have now in my sources.list, except they will appear twice, once for
> testing, once for unstable?

well, musta done it right, because I'm now running Claws 3.7.1 without major
incident :)

Thanks again!

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J
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