On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> wrote:
Hi Didier (2016.02.16_16:03:50_+0200)
> Le mardi, 16 février 2016, 06.20:42 Stefano Rivera a écrit :
> > To support a new HP Printer, I've prepared a backport of hplip
> > 3.15.11+repack0-1 to jessie.
>
> As far as I remember (but could never take the time to actively check),
> the Debian Stable Managers were open to update packages in Stable for
> hardware support (and "new HP Printer" would qualify). I haven't checked
> the hplip code to see whether a full new upstream release would make
> sense over backporting specific parts though.
>
> tl;dr: I'd check with the SRMs first.
I feel more comfortable uploading a backport of something I don't have
much experience with (and being on the hook for it) than doing an upload
to stable, which connotes more support.
But I'll feel out the SRMs on this.
SR
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