Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933489AbXFSTRJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:17:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933328AbXFSTQ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:16:56 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:43184 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932567AbXFSTQz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:16:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:16:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Thomas Glanzmann cc: LKML Subject: Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch In-Reply-To: <20070619061300.GK16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Message-ID: References: <20070618212524.GC16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20070619061300.GK16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 20 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 ;-). - 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/