Comment 3 for bug 625280

Unfortunately, as you may recall from prior -geode update attempts, Ubuntu's SRU policy does not permit doing micro-version updates of packages, due to concern for regression risk. The SRU team wants each discrete change broken out separately, to be reviewed, tested, and tracked in Ubuntu. Personally I wish we could roll out point releases of X drivers, since there's a lot of drivers with fixes I'd like to be able to easily roll out.

However there are some options you can take:

1. We provide the x-updates PPA (https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates) specifically as a semi-official solution to this need. You are a member of the ubuntu-x-swat team and should be able to upload to that PPA directly; I'd strongly encourage you to do so, and encourage any geode users or clients to install this ppa. This ppa will only contain stable releases of drivers, so it should be relatively low risk, and if there did happen to be any regression it leaves the user with the option to revert back to the stock distro versions.

2. ubuntu-backports is the most official way to request backports of new versions of packages.

3. There has been a new policy established for permitting exceptions to the SRU policy, for allowing specific packages to receive micro updates in stable releases. The requirement for this is that upstream includes a regression testsuite in the package, and that it is enabled to run in the package's build. Then, an exception must be requested and granted by the Technical Board. For more info if you want to pursue this option please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions or talk with Colin Watson if you have questions.