How to install/upgrade Lisp libraries on Debian
I recently discovered that some of my favorite libraries have been removed from Debian, e.g., [Hunchentoot][1]:

> For a while now most Common Lisp projects do not do releases anymore,
> our plan is to move to proving a cl-build like environment inside debian

I've looked at the mailing lists and Debian Common Lisp homepage and not found anything else mentioning this.

Is there a standard way I'm supposed to be installing/upgrading libraries like Hunchentoot now?  I can ASDF-install it, but now I'm dealing with 2 package systems, with their own verification system, etc.  I'm using Debian specifically to avoid that mess.

The [first question of the ASDF-install FAQ][2] (which doesn't have a very solid answer) is "After you have installed some packages with asdf-install, how do you keep them up to date? This can be hard to do even manually", so I guess I'm not alone in finding this an unsatisfactory solution.

(Asked here instead of SU or SF because I think it's equally applicable to all three, and SO has the most traffic.)


  [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546100
  [2]: http://www.cliki.net/ASDF-Install%20FAQ
How to install/upgrade Lisp libraries on Debian
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I recently discovered that some of my favorite libraries have been removed from Debian, e.g., [Hunchentoot][1]:

> For a while now most Common Lisp projects do not do releases anymore,
> our plan is to move to proving a cl-build like environment inside debian

I've looked at the mailing lists and Debian Common Lisp homepage and not found anything else mentioning this.

Is there a standard way I'm supposed to be installing/upgrading libraries like Hunchentoot now?  I can ASDF-install it, but now I'm dealing with 2 package systems, with their own verification system, etc.  I'm using Debian specifically to avoid that mess.

The [first question of the ASDF-install FAQ][2] (which doesn't have a very solid answer) is "After you have installed some packages with asdf-install, how do you keep them up to date? This can be hard to do even manually", so I guess I'm not alone in finding this an unsatisfactory solution.

(Asked here instead of SU or SF because I think it's equally applicable to all three, and SO has the most traffic.)


  [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546100
  [2]: http://www.cliki.net/ASDF-Install%20FAQ