I knew I was forgetting something… Julien Cristau <julien@cristau.org> (24/06/2011): > and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, surely? … I got distracted while searching for the reason we couldn't backport it (needs newer X server), so it was left out yeah. > > Backporting libdrm to squeeze means no longer providing with the > > libdrm-nouveau1 package, and providing libdrm-nouveau1a instead. > > > Or, you could back out the ABI-breaking nouveau changes. I might try and do that yeah. > > This means plymouth becomes uninstallable, since it depends on the > > former. BinNMUing makes it build successfully against the latter. That > > was done in unstable already, I guess it's 1. feasible, and 2. wanted to > > do so in squeeze-backports as well, so that plymouth is installable along > > new libdrm. Thoughts? > > > I don't think it's reasonable/feasible. backports.d.o doesn't carry the > source for that package, so you'd need a source upload. Ack. Thanks. Mraw, KiBi.
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