dpkg

[Frank McCormick]

Hi

  A couple of messages on this list lately prompt this question:

Often I want software (such as Sylpheed, or mhwaveedit) in a version
that's not yet available from the regular repositories. I have been
dl'ing the source, and doing a make, make install but this seems to be
to be defeating the fine record keeping of the Debian system.
Whats the **recommended** way of doing this; using dpkg ???
I am still running Warty...as I don;t want to upgrade until the release.

Thanks

Frank