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On 17/02/13 05:24, david wrote:
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> The way to handle updates on Sid: start with Aptosid. Update only those apps

> that you find you need to update. I use Rosegarden, and it had some bug fixes

> that addressed issues I had with it, and Debian Stable was never going to get

> the fixes. (Neither did backports, as far as I know, but when I was using

> Stable, I found backports pretty useless.)

I've used aptosid's ancestors that way since that same team made kannotix back

when etch was sid ... but it seems that they may have gotten tired of it or

something ... only one new release last year and very little other visible

activity ... one of the core team (there are about a dozen that have been doing

it together since 2006) has set up different version, but unfortunately it does

not seem nearly so rigorous, even if it seems a lot more open, friendly and

perhaps more active. So not sure about the future of that option. It has been a

great not-really-a-distribution for a long time.
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> FWIW, I'm running Sid on my two main systems (desktop and laptop). I also have

> deb-multimedia in the repository collection, along with a couple of PPAs such as

> one for the real cdrecord.

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The deb-multimedia stuff is much less needed than it was a few years ago, and it

can certainly bite you with incompatibilities ... esp on sid, their libraries

are not always binary compatible but they will be the ones installed on your

system (if you don't pin stuff or actively manage what gets brought in from the

repository). They version them as more recent than the debian ones for this

reason, but unfortunately the other debian audio apps that they don't package

sometimes get broken by this, since they are built against the debian libraries.
Of course without something from outside you will be missing some things that

debian still finds un-redistributable (even after relaxing their approach on

software patents and allowing a lot more codecs in). Probably best to just fetch

a couple of apps from the repository and install them directly rather than

enable the whole repository.
Simon

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