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>The most up-to-date Debian packages are distributed on the
      Debian sites (and mirrors) in <A
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>To get the Debian packages, you just do the following:</P
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>The Debian package maintainers are volunteers, and they
      try to test things thoroughly before releasing, so if you don't
      see the latest release in deb format right away, please be
      patient.  Better yet, if you want to help prepare the Debian
      packages for distribution, there is a mailing list at <A
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>debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org</A
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>Since the Debian GNOME packages are already being
      distributed with Debian, we don't currently mirror them here.
      There doesn't appear to be any need to.  If there is a real need
      for us to mirror these packages, just let us know and we
      will.</P
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