Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 21:51:25 +1200, Frank Watt wrote:
> On 2/06/19 9:07 PM, Jens John wrote:> On Sun, 2 Jun 2019, at 05:36, 
> > (Why not just upgrade your Debian or Ubuntu release?)
>
> There's nothing newer I can find:
> https://sources.debian.org/patches/mutt/1.5.23-3/
> 

A better search for checking "what's available in later Debian
releases?" would be:

  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mutt

(or you can just type in the URL "packages.debian.org/mutt" for short.)

>From that search you will see that Debian packages for Mutt v1.10.1 are
available in Buster (and Sid).  So you would get a newer version of Mutt
if you upgraded to Buster (though still not 1.12).



(If you go up a directory and look at
  https://sources.debian.org/patches/mutt/
, you will find the patches included in later package versions as well  
as the 1.5.23-3 patches you were looking at.

But probably a better page to be looking at is the Debian Package
Tracker page, which shows various sorts of developer info rather than
only "patches":
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mutt

							Nathan