Use Debian jessie or xenial-proposed as backports in trusty?

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:53:24AM +0200, Lukas Erlacher wrote:
> I am pretty frustrated with the age of most packets in trusty, but my
> organisation has standardised on Ubuntu LTS version. trusty-backports
> is pretty meh, so - is there an easy and sensible way to install newer
> packets, e.g. from Debian jessie or xenial-proposed, into trusty
> without breakage?

The way I'd recommend would be to create a PPA on Launchpad for your
purposes, and then build backported versions of the packages you need in
that PPA for trusty.  backportpackage(1) from the ubuntu-dev-tools
package lets you do this in one command per package assuming that no
source changes are needed.

You'll still have to deal with ensuring that your backports stay up to
date, and with any adjustments that are necessary to get the packages to
backport correctly, but you were basically going to have to do that
anyway.  The PPA approach makes it easier to keep track and saves you
from having to worry about ensuring suitable build environments.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]