Re: debian backports of modemmanager, network-manager, and dependencies

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi,


>    I have produced backports of the packages listed below from debian stretch to debian jessie for my personal use. My changes are hosted on github. Built packages >are hosted on Google Drive. The newer versions of modemmanager and network-manager have some features I couldn't resist, and the backport was really straight >forward. I just thought I'd share, so others could benefit.
>
>Backported packages:
>    * modemmanager 1.6.0-1
>    * network-manager 1.2.4
>    * libqmi 1.16.0-1
>    * libmbim 1.14.0-1
>    * audit (libaudit) 1:2.6.6-1
>    * ppp 2.4.7-1+3


I don't see any particular reason to backport them, are them all no-change backports?
did you ask the maintainers to backport them? with Buster going to be released soon, I don't
see any good reason to maintain such packages, at least I would ask the maintainers to backport
them if needed.

G.