[Gnumed-devel] Re: Debian lenny required for client 0.2.8.10-1 ??

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> That won't work because the packages GNUmed depends on are
> not available in stable.

Well, you have reasonable chances to mix distributions - but the
price is that the system is not "stable" any more.  I have no
experiences with mixed Etch - testing systems - it might be that
you need a lot of packages from testing which might make the
approach questionably and running a complete Lenny which is
"quite" stable these days might be a reasonable option.

> However, 0.2.8.x can be run from a tarball just fine
> in Debian/Stable.

This could be a sensible alternative.

> > If this is explained I will put it somewhere in the wiki because it may
> > help to be clear how people with a stable system (even when lenny is
> > stable) may need to be able to update their gnumed through some means
> > other than using cvs
>
> They can't. The stable system is stable because it doesn't change.

Well, the third option is to try backports.org.  I know several
people who are using this - but I have no personal experience.
May be adding this to your sources.list and add a proper pinning
statement might enable you to use gnumed-client packages from
testing - but I have not tried this personally ...

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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