How to update gutsy with GIMP from hardy?

[H.S.]

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> I'm still a bit bemused by the update mechanism for
> Ubuntu. I can do the default stuff pretty easily,
> but exceptional cases are still a mystery.
> 
> Right now, using "apt-get dist-upgrade", or "apt-get
> install gimp", gutsy is updating to superseded
> version GIMP 2.4.0 RC 3, and telling me that said
> superseded version is "current".
> 
> Well, no it isn't, by some months now.
> 
> Hardy, which isn't to be released for another more
> than four months, has what the GIMP developers think
> is the current GIMP, version 2.4.2, listed in its
> packages web page.
> 
> Is there a way to tell gutsy to upgrade to the hardy
> release? Is it safe to do so?
> 
> Is there a FAQ page I should be reading that
> explains how to keep up to date with individual
> package development when gutsy isn't upgrading to
> the "most current" releases "in real time"?
> 
> Or, am I stuck with waiting until April 2008 to use
> the latest greatest GIMP release?
> 
> xanthian.
> 

Perhaps somebody else knows more about this, but isn't Hardy just the
new version in 'testing' phase? If one can specify "gusty" in the
sources.list file, shouldn't one be able to specify "hardy" there and
just pull packages form Hardy thereon? Or maybe Ubuntu developers have
"testing" instead of the new version name.

I use Debian quite a bit. If I am running the "Testing" version and want
a package from "Unstable" (unstable version have all new stuff), I just
put in a couple of source lines in sources.list with "unstable" instead
of "testing", apt-get update, then install a package I want from
unstable using the "-t" option of apt-get. Apt-get then pulls the
necessary dependencies as well. Doesn't Ubuntu support the "-t" option
in apt-get? If it does, then installing a package from a new version
still being developed shouldn't be a problem, i.e. if Ubuntu has
followed Debian's guidelines in this respect.

->HS