On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:59:14PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Are there instructions somewhere whereby a novice could backport a
> package? I'm interested in backportin opam and related stuff because
> the opam in jessie is dangerously obsolete. It is no longer
> compatible with the opam archive format.
>

The only problem might be that most of the times backporting a package
could imply backporting also some of its deps. For the rest, it might
possibly be relatively straightforward.

HND

KatolaZ

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