Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757501AbXFSGNP (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:13:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753964AbXFSGND (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:13:03 -0400 Received: from faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.30.103]:40114 "EHLO faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753947AbXFSGNC (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:13:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:13:00 +0200 From: Thomas Glanzmann To: Christoph Lameter Cc: LKML Subject: Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch Message-ID: <20070619061300.GK16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Glanzmann , Christoph Lameter , LKML References: <20070618212524.GC16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-05-02) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 27 Hallo, > Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go > around through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is > not actively maintaining the package? 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 For me it was unacceptable to use git version 1.4 since the pacing of git is very fast. So I follow the stable releases of git very close. And as a result I update all my personal machines, the all the machines at university and the machines I use at work with a recent git version. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/