RE: Building package from newer upstream source?
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> I believe that step 1 can be achieved with apt-get's "source" option.
> Step 2 is fairly simple except that I don't know whether the source as
> checked out of CVS is in the exact right format to be patched by the
> diff.tar.gz. I have no idea at all about step 3, and I couldn't figure
> it out from the Packaging Manual
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/) either.
>
X is big and ugly. Mail the maintainer for guidance.
That said, if you just need the server for your card, you only need to compile
that and drop it on the system, the rest of the packaging is independent of
that card support.
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