On Thursday 19 Aug 2010 23:14:05 Rob Owens wrote:
> You might want to consider learning how to do backports yourself, if
> this is really important to you.

Indeed. Backporting newer Debian packages to older releases is actually quite 
easy. See pbuilder:

http://www.tolaris.com/2009/03/31/backporting-debian-packages-with-pbuilder/

I backported BackupPC from Ubuntu lucid to hardy the same way. The only real 
work in backporting comes when there is a new source release that hasn't been 
packaged at all yet.

Regards,
Tyler

-- 
"Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget."
   -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein

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