Too eager to wait for Jessie to become stable, and too lazy to build these packages from source, I used the apt-pinning technique to coerce APT, Debian's package manager, to install these packages on Wheezy.Īpt-pinning lets you mix and match the different distributions in a Debian release: stable, testing, and unstable. However, there are software packages that are only available in the current testing distribution Jessie.Įxamples are dateutils, and Enlightenment 0.17. My Debian system runs the current stable Debian distribution Wheezy.