I have a new version of a package that is only avaliable on debian repos.
$ uname -a
Linux hostname 3.19.0-79-generic #87~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 21 18:12:31 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Current package:
$ dpkg -l | grep ifenslave
ii ifenslave 2.4ubuntu1.2 amd64 configure network interfaces for parallel routing (bonding)
This debian wiki suggests the process doesn't work in reverse but is this safe for a direct installation from the deb package? Is there a process to get package version migrated to ubuntu? This question suggests I should ask the maintainer.
The package I would like to install the wheezy package ifenslave-2.6 and when I do a manual dpkg -i after removing the previous version it appears to be installed correctly. Is this likely to break in the future or cause instability in my system? Is there anything I can do further to validate?
