![]() Requirementsįor this article I'll be using the CCID library, a piece of software for using smartcard readers.Īt the time of writing, Debian testing has version 1.4.27 and Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) has version 1.4.22 and there's no newer package available in xenial-backports.Īt the time of writing Ubuntu Zesty (17.04) is the next non-LTS stable distribution release. ![]() While it's not always trivial, it turns out to be working quite well usually.įirst of all, you might want to check if the package is already backported for you in Debian/Ubuntu.ĭebian offers quite some backports already.įor example in stretch-backports, at the timme of writing there are more than 1400 packages available. This type of backport will be a no-change-of-sources rebuild. Suppose you are running Ubuntu LTS or Debian (Old)Stable, but you want the newer version of a package that's available in a newer distribution release (e.g.
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