How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

[Derek Broughton]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:

> Derek Broughton a écrit :
>> Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>> 
>>> Larry Alkoff a écrit :
>> 
>>>> I'd be very happy to just get the Edgy version of vim onto Dapper.
>>>>
>>>> If I knew how to find the repository that had vim for Edgy, I'd just
>>>> add that temporarily to my sources.list.
>>>>
>>>> How can I easily find where the vim package is in the list of Edgy
>>>> repositories?
>>>>
>>> NEVER DO THAT ! For the sake of your computer. you're going to break
>>> your system.
>> 
>> Oh, don't be such a wet blanket.  It's not that serious.
> 
> This mailing list is for helping user by giving them advice and way to
> do things. You shouldn't tell someone to do something that dangerous
> (even if it's just in a few case).

It's not THAT dangerous.  The Debian packaging system is pretty robust.  If
doing this from Edgy to Feisty, it would be mildly hazardous, because not
all of the Feisty packages are guaranteed to work.  The worst that's going
to happen with an attempt to upgrade a single package from Dapper to Edgy
is that you'll be told it's going to update your entire Gnome (or KDE)
desktop to Edgy.  When you see it wanting to update 300 packages, you do
_not_ respond "Yes" to the prompt!  Even if you do, you now have an
essentially Edgy system, and you may as well continue with a full upgrade.

> I sould warn people that when you do that kind of thing and mess up with
> your system , you can get no support, Debugging it will be next to
> impossible, and the last solution you will have is to reinstall and use
> your system cleanly this time.

Yes you can get exactly the sort of support you normally get here.  Some
helpful, some not.
-- 
derek