22nd March 2021
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Installing packages from Debian unstable in a Docker image based on stable
— For [Datasette #1249](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1249) I wanted to build a Docker image from the `python:3.9.2-slim-buster` base image ("buster" is the current stable release of Debian) but include a single package from "sid", the unstable Debian distribution.
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