On Monday 15 August 2016 14:25:58 Brian wrote: > A good guide to backporting is at > > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ > > A deb-src line in sources.list for unstable is needed to do > > apt-get source libsane-common/unstable > > Then > > apt-get build-deps libsane-common/unstable > > should get the dependencies from stable to build libsane-common and > libsane. >
Thank you, Brian. That sounds great. I had been following this (mutatis mutandis) https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation but had got stuck on https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation#Find_and_Install_missing_build_dependencies_as__found_in_debian.2Fcontrol And went to do other jobs before tackling it again, and googling as neccesary. Yours sounds much simpler. libsane-common doesn't seem to have many dependencies, but I though I mighty have to backport the whole of sane-backends, largely because I was a bit at sea. I'll try later and report back. Why does one use Sid when the package is available in Stretch?? Lisi
