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  • It's safe to change the lines in my sources.list to a newer release? In the past, doing so has led to dependency hell- not something I want to confront. My main reason for upgrading is just that I'm getting tired of compiling software from source simply because the packages for precise aren't up-to-date. I've already had to backport cmake, gcc, g++, and many other integral system packages just to get other software to compile at all (and I'm only compiling it because there's no version for precise- I wouldn't be compiling it otherwise). If I used newer repos, this would all be a non-issue. Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 16:20
  • @Suchipi that's just it, sometimes it is fine, sometimes it is not and it depends on the packages in question. You might want to look into apt pinning but yes, mixing releases is the road to dependency hell, that's why I don't recommend it. Mixing distributions (which is what you're suggesting) is the highway to dependency hell though so I don't really see a way around it. I repeat that you don't really need the latest versions and if you feel you do, you're on the wrong distro. Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 16:30