Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports

[Ed Robbins <edd.robbins@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 12:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1]
> that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when
> I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as we need
> them.
>
> I understand that the timing is a bit unfortunate, but I wasn't aware of the
> removal bug otherwise, I would have asked for some of the drivers to stay.
>
> But I can just maintain the driver packages myself if that's ok?

This sounds like a good idea. I have a number of machines affected by
this issue (both G4 and x86). Is it possible to bring these packages
back into debian? They work well enough for many users.

Thanks,
Ed Robbins