Radeontop in Debian Bullseye Repo is Outdated: Best Way to Get Newer Version?

[SInisterPisces]

Hello,

I need to install Radeontop. It's in the Debian repo accessible via PVE 7.3.

~# apt-cache policy radeontop

radeontop:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.3-1
Version table:
1.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages

The latest version is actually 1.4. I could build it via the Github Repo, but I've noticed git and other dev tools do not seem to be installed and I'm not sure putting them into a PVE node is a great idea.

I know Debian is very careful about what packages it lets in its repos. Is it even possible for me to request they update this one?

If not, and I need to build software on PVE, what's the safest way to go about doing that?

Thanks!

 

[Rares]

Hello,

In general, in this cases, I create a separated VM for building the package, in your case a VM with PX 7.3 on it, compile the software and move only the final deb on the live machine.

Regards,
Rares

 

[fabian]

in general such packages are not updated in the stable release unless there is a very good reason (e.g., common exceptions are browser, where old versions are not supported and upgrading is the only option to ensure security issues are fixed, or packages like tzdata where having the current information available is paramount). besides these special cases, point releases sometimes ship selected, important bug fixes, but almost never new upstream versions. there is a separate mechanism for that called backports: https://backports.debian.org/ . you could ask the radeontop maintainer if they want to provide the current version from unstable/testing for bullseye, or do such a local backport yourself (like @Rares says, better done in a separate build environment, not directly on a production host ).