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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:18:32 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> Hello,
> a friend of mine always builds the Debian Packages from unstable for
> Debian Etch. I have on all my machines the following line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
>         deb http://rmdir.de/~michael/git/ ./
> 
> apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> and you're up2speed.
> 
> If you don't trust that packages it is very easy to build them yourself:

Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go around 
through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is not actively 
maintaining the package?