Control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Sun, 28 May 2017 14:37:47 +0100 Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I should have been clearer: what we try to keep synched is not the > upstream code, but the packaging code. Scripts to fetch the upstream > installers and create source tarballs, to create dkms packages, package > individual libraries separately, etc. > > Maintaining this upstream proprietary driver is quite complex, and this > really helps a lot keeping things sane.
Agreed. And we usually have to upload new upstream (legacy) releases to (old)*stable :-( The upstream changelog also considers the new legacy releases as history of the latest release. Bugfixes are only mentioned in the oldest release branch where they were applied. (And CVEs are not mentioned at all, since they are usually only disclosed after the fix is out.) Andreas
