On Mon 15 Aug 2016 at 15:47:00 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/08/2016 à 15:25, Brian a écrit : > [...] > > I reckon the second approach will not work because the libraries need > > an adjustment too. > > I plead guilty: Lisi just confirmed your point of view, In computer > science, crime (of lazyness) does not (always) pay ;-) > > thanks for your input, Brian, I did not realize building a backport > package from source in Debian is so simple
There is a simplicity to the process but how straightforward it is to get to the destination of a new debian package depends on the package being backported. libsane-common should give no trouble but chromium, for example, requires build dependencies which are not in stable. And the dependencies need dependencies, all of which have to be backported!