Yanno, there should be a HOWTO on how to Backport stuff, it would take some of the load off of the "official" Backporters.
ie, someone requests a package backported. Instead of the Backporters going through the work to see if its possible, the person could build thier own package then send it into Staging.
Just an idea I know there have been times where I have wanted to backport something but just didn't know how to
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