Could we also get the later version of suckless-tools into jessie-backports
for the later tabbed and demnu packages?

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:11 AM, <golinux@???> wrote:

> On 2017-03-13 09:55, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:44:16AM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-03-13 09:06, Dave Turner wrote:
>>> >On 13/03/17 13:35, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:25:25AM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:10:00PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>I have found two browser-related devuan packages that have surf in
>>> >>their names.
>>> >>
>>> >>surf
>>> >>netsurf
>>> >>
>>> >>Is either of them relted to the surf you are documenting?
>>> >>
>>> >>Hi Hendrik,
>>> >>
>>> >>you should use the package "surf". The default version in jessie is
>>> >>0.6, but I would warmly suggest you to get the 0.7, e.g. from
>>> >>jessie-backports.
>>> >
>>> >Just noticed
>>> > surf --version
>>> >doesn't work.
>>> >
>>> >But aptitude indeed does tell me I'm using 0.6.
>>> >
>>> >Looking at backports. Now have surf 0.7.
>>> >
>>> >With the backports lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, will everything
>>> >automatically
>>> >get upgraded to the backports version if I do
>>> > aptitude update
>>> > aptitude upgrade
>>> >? I don't see anything in /etc/apt to stop this. I'd like to be able
>>> >to have some
>>> >control over which packages I get from backports.
>>> >
>>> >Or am I better off from a security perspective to always get backports
>>> >updates for
>>> >everything?
>>> >
>>> >-- hendrik
>>> >
>>> >>HND
>>> >>
>>> >>KatolaZ
>>> >>
>>> >>--
>>> >>[ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ]
>>> >>[ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ]
>>> >>[ @) http://kalos.mine.nu [1] --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ]
>>> >>[ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia [2] -- GPG: 0B5F062F ]
>>> >>[ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
>>> >
>>> > Hendrik,
>>> > When you use backports all packages in backports are de-activated.
>>> > You have to explicitly install the package you want.
>>> >
>>> >sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package"
>>> >
>>> > So don't be afraid to add
>>> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian [4] jessie-backports main
>>> > into your sources.list
>>> >
>>> > and have a look at
>>> > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ [5]
>>> > to set your mind at rest.
>>> >
>>> > DaveT
>>> >
>>>
>>> Perhaps not the best advice . . . Has this issue been fixed yet? If not
>>> you'll have to do the pinning manually.
>>>
>>> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=479
>>>
>>> golinux
>>>
>>
>> I just pinned it manually. So it looks as if the issue has not been
>> fixed yet.
>> Or, at least, not for a system that was installed from alpha-2 and
>> continually
>> upgraded since.
>>
>> It is a configuration file, and they sometimes don't upgrade without
>> manual
>> intervention.
>>
>> -- hendrik
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Also . . . don't use debian backports repos in your sources list. Use
> the devuan backports:
>
> deb http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports main contrib
> non-free
>
> golinux
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