On: Debops (2014)

[stephenr]

Do you just use pinning straight out the gate, or do you check backports (or whatever equivalent Ubuntu has) first?

[tankenmate → stephenr]

It depends, normally in order of preference LTS, LTS backports, then latest release. So then if you want the newer version you can do apt-get install <package>/<release>. I typically use Apt::Default-Release "<release>" in a separate apt.conf.d file.