Re: [orca-list] installing orca on debian

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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Yes, this was a big help and tells me a lot about the Debian
workings.  One final question, How does one add experimental to the
sources list without messing up the rest of the package availability?
Might be dumb but haven't had a chance to study that file all that
closely since I added kernel.org for my normal stuff.

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> writes:
>
> > What is the difference between unstable and experimental?
>
> unstable is the distribution you use if you want to be on the
> bleeding edge.  experimental is just a sort of staging area
> for software that shouldn't go to unstable directly for some reason.
> In case of GNOME, Debian has a internal policy of not uploading
> development releases of GNOME software (the odd version numbers)
> to unstable to not disturb developers machines too much (after all, people
> are using their desktop for doing things, and if it would break in
> places too often, that would be very anoying).
> at-spi, gnome-orca and friends, being GNOME packages, follow this
> same pattern in Debian.  So in unstable (which eventually propagates to
> testing and finally stable), you will only find stable release version
> of at-spi and gnome-orca, something like at-spi 1.22.0 or gnome-orca 2.22.2.
>
> However, right now is a bit of an exceptional situation because Debian
> is about to release lenny, and therefore is not uploading GNOME 2.24
> packages to unstable just yet to avoid disturbing the release process too much.
> Therefore, at-spi 1.24.0 and gnome-orca 2.24.1 did not go to unstable
> but to experimental instead, so that users can selectively install these
> versions if they need/like to have the latest accessibility stuff running.
>
> However, experimental is not a full distribution, you can't (and really don't
> want to) apt-get dist-upgrade to experimental.
> What you can do is add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list and tell
> apt-get to install a certain package from experimental like this:
> apt-get install gnome-orca/experimental
>
> -- 
> Hope this helps,
>   âââââ
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