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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.152.108.220"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2013-09-25T18:18:49Z"
+ content="""
+The tarballs are built on Debian stable in order to have an old enough libc to work most places. So I am limited to what is available in stable and backports. Once there is a backport available of git, I will use it.
+"""]]