Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:07 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 30/01/12 22:50, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>>> On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to configure a Soundgraph 15c2:0038 display. In Ubuntu
>>>>>> which I had running before on that PC it was very easy to get the
>>>>>> display working: Install lcdproc and change the driver in /etc/
>>>>>> LCDd.conf to imonlcd.
>>>>>> Unfortunately this isn't possible in squeeze because this driver
>>>>>> isn't available.
>>>>>
> <snipped>
>
>
>> If I understand the idea behind backports correct wouldn't it be useful
>> to have this package in there too?
>
> The idea with backports (usually) is to make a package from a newer
> release, that requires libraries not available in an older release, work
> with the libraries available in the older release.
>
> In this case it's not necessary, and would be redundant (because it's
> not necessary) ;-)
Aha, so in this case the new lcdproc version and it's dependencies work
with the libraries from squeeze and that's why there's no need to have it
in the backports?
I thought it would just be to allow stupid users like me to use newer
packages :-)
But the longer I use Debian the longer I get the idea that there aren't
any stupid users supposed to use Debian at all ;-)
Don't get me wrong: I like to learn new things!
On the other hand I think it's more like a workaround and not a proper
solution because I don't receive any updates on the packages from testing
which I would when it were in backports?
Thanks again
Ramon
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