Backports
Revision 7 as of 2013-10-20 11:45:19
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What is backporting?
Backporting means adding an application from a newer release to an older release of Ubuntu.
When to do a backport?
When wanting to add new features to an older release, you may backport an application. Backporting is not done when wanting to fix a bug. In the case where you want to fix a bug, do a SRU (Stable Release Update) instead.
How to Backport
== First step: Test Build =
First, do a test build on the release that you want to backport to.