On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:07 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 30/01/12 22:50, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>>>>> Hi all >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm trying to configure a Soundgraph 15c2:0038 display. In Ubuntu >>>>>> which I had running before on that PC it was very easy to get the >>>>>> display working: Install lcdproc and change the driver in /etc/ >>>>>> LCDd.conf to imonlcd. >>>>>> Unfortunately this isn't possible in squeeze because this driver >>>>>> isn't available. >>>>> > <snipped> > > >> If I understand the idea behind backports correct wouldn't it be useful >> to have this package in there too? > > The idea with backports (usually) is to make a package from a newer > release, that requires libraries not available in an older release, work > with the libraries available in the older release. > > In this case it's not necessary, and would be redundant (because it's > not necessary) ;-)
Aha, so in this case the new lcdproc version and it's dependencies work with the libraries from squeeze and that's why there's no need to have it in the backports? I thought it would just be to allow stupid users like me to use newer packages :-) But the longer I use Debian the longer I get the idea that there aren't any stupid users supposed to use Debian at all ;-) Don't get me wrong: I like to learn new things! On the other hand I think it's more like a workaround and not a proper solution because I don't receive any updates on the packages from testing which I would when it were in backports? Thanks again Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jg62a6$8i6$1...@dough.gmane.org
