Re: nouvea bug - how do I figure out if testing has the right patch ?
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:08:36 +0200
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-07-10 20:37 +0200, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
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> Without even looking it up, I'm positive it does. The "8378443" in the
> long Debian package version is the abbreviated SHA1 of the latest
> upstream commit, and if you look closely…
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too funny. I was looking at the data and didn't even notice.
> > How can I figure out if which debian version, if any, has the patch ?
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> Clone the git repository of the Debian package:
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> git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.git
very handy thing to know - did that and verified that the patch is in and in _testing_. That's cool, I'm running testing on two machines so I feel good about rolling it out on this one.
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> > Is it reasonable for me to try and build the latest version, should I
> > not be able to get a debian package which includes it ?
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> Rebuilding the sid package on squeeze will definitely be impossible.
> However, you could try to cherry-pick the fix.
yep - looks like testing should be good.
Thank you !
Brian
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