If at all possible, get it from backports instead of testing. If that's not
possible, your options are to backport it yourself (preferable), to upgrade
to testing, or to set up pinning to limit how much of testing you pull in.

While it's strongly warned against, so long as you pay attention and have
pinning in place to make sure you don't accidentally upgrade other packages
dependencies (especially core packages), any breakage would be minor and
easily recoverable.


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Antonio Trkdz.tab <antoniotrkdz@???>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have few questions.
>
> I am on (devuan) jessie..
> Given that "mixing stable and testing branches is recipe for disaster", is
> it safe to apt install vim version 8 from ascii?
>
> I pinned the ascii packages to priority 50 in preferences and I get:
>
> # apt-get install -t ascii vim
> ...
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libncurses5 libncurses5:i386 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libtinfo-dev
> libtinfo5 libtinfo5:i386 ncurses-bin vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny xxd
> Suggested packages:
> ncurses-doc ctags vim-doc vim-scripts indent
> Recommended packages:
> libgpm2:i386
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> vim vim-runtime xxd
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> libncurses5 libncurses5:i386 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libtinfo-dev
> libtinfo5 libtinfo5:i386 ncurses-bin vim-common vim-tiny
> 10 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1298 not upgraded.
> Need to get 8703 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 30.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> ...
>
> Would it be better to install from source?
> Can I remove vim.tiny after (or before) installing vim?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Antonio
>
>
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