Re: nvidia drivers
Russ Allbery schrieb am Wednesday, den 07. December 2011:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>
> > It was rejected because of a version number change, and then something
> > went wrong with the next two times I tried to upload it (that I think
> > were both my fault in not getting the right combination of build flags),
> > and now a newer version has migrated to testing, so I need to
> > double-check on what the right thing to do at this point is.
>
> Andreas thinks it would be best to backport the version that was in
> testing that I was trying to upload and failed at, rather than backport
> the version that just migrated to testing, since the one that's prepared
> for backport is the "long term stable" release and the new version hasn't
> gotten as much testing.
>
> Backports ftpmasters, is it acceptable under the backporting policy to
> upload a version that previously was in stable but has since been
> supplanted by a different version? I haven't run across this case before,
> and there doesn't seem to be anything specifically addressing this on the
> contribute page other than the general admonition that the backported
> package be in testing to permit clean upgrades to the next release from
> stable + backports.
in stable? are we talkin about lenny here? usually backports come from
testing, but if you are talking about uploading a package that was in testing
before and got updated in the meanwhile - that would be ok. (as long as the
update wasn't a security update).
Alex
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