[Tfug] Today's meeting

[Garrett Weaver]

Sean,

I understand backports now. I followed the instructions you gave me, I
spent this week trying to compile openscad, and I have succeeded. I have
installed it. Here's my .deb package for it:
thepool.blue/openscad_2015.03-1+dfsg-3~bpo80+1_amd64.deb

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>
wrote:

> Hello Garrett,
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:31:28PM -0700, Garrett Weaver wrote:
> > I completely agree the latest version of openScad is on backports, so
> > I don't see any reason to create a backport for it. I'm hoping I can
> > just install the testing version.
>
> I think you're confused about what backports is.
>
> There is no backport of openscad.  There is only the version in jessie,
> and the version in testing.  My suggestion was that you convert the
> version in testing into a backport, using the instructions I gave you.
> 'testing' refers to the as-yet-unreleased version of Debian, stretch.
>
> --
> Sean Whitton
>
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