Try getting the source from testing and building the deb against stable.
i.e.:
apt-get source libgnome
cd libgnome-x.x.x
debuild

May require some tweaking and/or other packages, but I did it successfully
with apache once.

* Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Richardson [mailto:eric@milagrosoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:50 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Where to put dev libs? Update


"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 25. May, 2001 schwäzte Eric Richardson so:
> 
> > I'm trying to compile a program gbonds on Debian stable. I've installed
> > the libxxx-dev packages needed and since libgnome was too old, 1.0.56
> > instead of 1.2.xx, I downloaded the source from testing and compiled it.
> > So far so good.
I worked with the debian packager for about a week and he gave up. We
tried everthing and couldn't get it to compile. I haven't tried the
precompiled versions yet.

> 
> Could you just use libgnome from testing? Using the configged apt-test I
> posted last week allows you to not dirty your stable package lists.
> 
> BTW, apt-get can now handle specifying dist, e.g.:
> 
> apt-get install libgnome/testing
This doesn't work in stable.

I tried.

Eric R.
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