On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:08:36 +0200
Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2011-07-10 20:37 +0200, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> 
>
> 
> Without even looking it up, I'm positive it does.  The "8378443" in the
> long Debian package version is the abbreviated SHA1 of the latest
> upstream commit, and if you look closely…
>

too funny.   I was looking at the data and didn't even notice.

 
> > How can I figure out if which debian version, if any, has the patch ?
> 
> Clone the git repository of the Debian package:
> 
> git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.git

very handy thing to know - did that and verified that the patch is in and in 
_testing_.  That's cool, I'm running testing on two machines so I feel good 
about rolling it out on this one.

> 
> > Is it reasonable for me to try and build the latest version, should I
> > not be able to get a debian package which includes it ?
> 
> Rebuilding the sid package on squeeze will definitely be impossible.
> However, you could try to cherry-pick the fix.

yep - looks like testing should be good.

Thank you !

Brian


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