Hi Pirate
On 6/5/2020 5:03 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
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Hi Mark,
I also use a Thinkpad (X240) with Debian unstable, it mostly work except
for some issues with touchpad and suspend (touchpad stops working after
resuming from suspend, but I work around it using an external mouse).
OK - I'll see if I can find out about that. We previously had a similar
issue on the X1C7 and that was fixed by a touchpad firmware update. I
don't have a X240 myself but I'll see what I can find.
As someone who maintains a package that moves too fast for debian
(gitlab which does not provide security updates to a release after 3
months) and part of the team that maintains
https://fasttrack.debian.net, I am happy to help you here.
That's really interesting - thanks for pointing it out. I can see that
being really useful - though I have to get my head around a bit more
how/when it is used.
I also mentor a lot of new contributors to Debian, so feel free to ask
me about any Debian issues and processes. I'm not an expert in drivers
and hardware, but I can definitely help with backporting part. We could
use fasttrack to make things available sooner to stable users if regular
backports are not possible.
Thank you - that is very much appreciated.
I haven't so far got as far as thinking about the backporting stage so I
probably need more education there. My goal so far has been to get fixes
from upstream into sid so that Debian users can pick them up from there.
But being able to backport them from there would be brilliant.
