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Update 12.2001: Varnish-software.com now offers an official debian repo, you should use that instead of installing it via source. Check www.varnish-software.com for more information!

Due to the strict rules of Debian many of the packages in stable releases are very old. In some cases though we want to run the latest version of a program, mainly due to new features and increased speed. The latest version of Varnish under Debian Lenny’s repositories is 1.1.2 (apt-cache show varnish), but in most cases we’d want to run the latest, especially with rapidly developed programs like Varnish. Varnish 2.0.6 is alos available in the Debian repository for SID/Squeeze or via backports.

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