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Answer by DerfK for What's a "safe" way of installing a Debian package that...

If there's a package for 0.8.x somewhere, then you can try grabbing the source package and building it. With an appropriate deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list it should be as easy as apt-get build-dep...

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What's a "safe" way of installing a Debian package that isn't in backports?

I want to grab nginx 0.8.x but I realize that 0.7 is in Lenny-backports. How can I "safely" install it so that maybe in the future if I decide to download a newer release from aptitude, it doesn't...

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