Re: nvidia drivers
Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery schrieb am Wednesday, den 07. December 2011:
>> 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?
Wow, I mangled that. Sorry. I meant a package that was formerly in
testing but has been supplanted by a new one.
> 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).
Yup, that's the case. Cool, thanks!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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