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> How do you deal with grossly outdated software on Debian Desktop?

Use the Source, Luke.

If there's something too shiny that I really need on my Debian, I compile it from source.

For example Emacs 29, with tree-sitter and whatnots, is just too shiny. So I compile it from source.



This is my approach. There's only been one or two times that I needed the latest version of something, and when that happened I just built them myself.




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