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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

William Grant wrote:
> dpkg is not appropriate for the official backports project. I find it
> extremely unlikely that an official backport would be approved.

Ok so it turns out that Colin W has a backported package available (it's
already in use on merges.u.c).

Before we use it on the hardy production servers, it needs a serious
soak test on dogfood and in the test suite.  Have you done the latter
already?

I'll get it installed on dogfood.

> Note that the powerpc buildds still run Dapper, which could throw a
> spanner in the works.

Urgh, really?  :/