Hi Vincent,Thank you for clearing this up; I wasn't sure how to proceed, since dch can only take one option. And that you for the link! [1] I had been focusing my reading on debian.org, and somehow missed/forgot about it.
Concerning xserver-xorg-video-savage, I haven't heard back from the user who said he would test the backport, but I finally tracked down the "Ubuntu patch" he kept talking about. Ubuntu's apparently been disabling AGP and forcing PCI-only for the Savage driver, to prevent crashes when resuming from hibernate, but I'm not sure if that's still needed, or if it would be better to workaround it by adding Option "BusType" "PCI" somewhere like /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-savage.conf.
Yeah, that's beyond the scope of a backport, but the backport was just try-this-first attempt at helping him fix what sounds like bug #768958 and I thought that commit 2e9217bb88b76cebfcd2b65b76c8733f80da77ea, included in version 2.3.8 of the package might 1024x768 working for him in a nicer way than using fbdev.
Unfortunately I don't have the hardware to test any of this. Cheers, Nicholas On 01/08/15 08:49 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
Hi Nicholas, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:❦ 31 juillet 2015 18:42 -0400, Nicholas Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> :https://readme.phys.ethz.ch/documentation/debian_version_numbers/ So for xserver-xorg-video-savage_2.3.8-1, backported to jessie, the version would be: xserver-xorg-video-savage_2.3.8-1.1~bpo8+1 rather than xserver-xorg-video-savage_2.3.8-1+nmu1~bpo8+1It would be 2.3.8-1~bpo8+1 because a backport is not an NMU. Even if you wanted to add any such indication, you cannot modify the version part left of the "~", otherwise your backported version would be considered more recent than the non-backported one. 2.3.8-1.1~bpo8+0.1 or 2.3.8-1.1~bpo8+0+nmu1 would be more correct. But again, not an NMU, just a regular backport.FWIW, if this is your first time contributing a backported package, you may want to read the rules and guidelines for backports contributors [1]. Just to add to what Vincent said above, if you're ever unsure about how to version your backported package, "dch --bpo" takes care of that for you. Regards, Vincent [1] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/