If you wish to teach yourself how to backport packages, then start with the PPP package. It is trivial to make the source package work with the woody debhelpers. Alternatively, it is also fairly easy to backport the debhelpers from sarge.
Remember that you'll also need to build a kernel with MPPE support. The pptpclient page on SourceForge has a HOWTO describing how to properly patch the kernel sources.
Stefan Drees wrote:
Hello, i need some help/ hints with backporting some packages from sid to woody. Primary i want ppp 2.4.2 to test pptp with mppe and sasl2 to test smtp auth. If it works as expected i want to upgrade some debian woody server with these packages/ features. I tried to download the source from unstable but i´m stuck with debuild and debhelper/ debconf. PPP 2.4.2 needs debhelper/ debconf from sid. The same problem with sasl2.
Hope someone can help me with these and give me some general tips/ hints how to do.
Thanks in advance.
S.Drees
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