Re: Requesting Backports

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:21:46PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote:
>    Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way
>    to make packages for lenny when using squeeze?�

I'd just say send the package maintainers a friendly request, at
<packagename>@packages.debian.org.

For backporting, you would want to create a Lenny chroot and build
your package in there. I don't have links at hand, but an easy way
would be to use pbuilder, as is described in this (rather old) page:

http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/pbuilder_backports/

HTH.

Kumar
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