Re: [orca-list] Debian Orca Backport Question

[ted <orangegrovebear gmail com>]

Thank you. I feel a lot better about upgrading to the backport. It's a 
whole new concept to me, coming from Arch Linux.
On 2/4/21 10:39 AM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, ted via orca-list wrote:
>
> > Thank you. I just want to be sure I understand. Will I need to also 
> > upgrade those other packages also for the newer version of Orca to 
> > work, or is Orca backward compatible with older versions of Speech 
> > Dispatcher etc?
>
> The whole point of backports is to avoid this kind of breakage.
>
> I looked at the dependencies of Orca in buster-backports 
> (https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/orca).
>
> Seems the only changes are extra dependencies on a couple of gstreamer 
> packages and something called xkbset.  All the existing dependencies 
> are the same.
>
> HTH,
> Geoff.