Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, December 28, 2012 10:18:57 AM Allison Randal wrote:
> CC'ing Niels for coordination with Debian.
> 
> On 12/28/2012 10:02 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> >> The package has now been removed from the archive and should disappear
> >> from the mirror pretty soon.
> >> 
> >> The problem is with people who already upgraded to it as it's been
> >> reported to causing breaks of at least lintian4python.
> >> 
> >> Once we're sure the package is completely gone from the
> >> extras.ubuntu.com mirrors, we should issue an e-mail to
> >> ubuntu-devel-announce (at Scott's suggestion), telling people to
> >> "downgrade" to the archive version using "apt-get install
> >> lintian/quantal-updates".
> >> 
> >> We'll also need to ensure that raring will have an higher version number
> >> by release time.
> >> 
> >> The version uploaded to extras was: 2.5.11ubuntu12.10.1
> 
> Is that what was uploaded? It should have been -0extras12.10.1 rather
> than ubuntu<anything> (this was designed by the TB as a safety
> precaution, so Ubuntu/Debian packages of the same upstream version would
> always have precedence over extras packages). So, a further bug, but
> probably because the package was never intended to actually be released
> to extras.
> 
> >> The version currently in quantal-updates: 2.5.10.2ubuntu2.1
> >> The version currently in raring: 2.5.10.2ubuntu3
> >> The version currently in raring-proposed: 2.5.11ubuntu1
> >> 
> >> Because of the version number, we'll need to upload something to raring
> >> that's >= 2.5.11ubuntu12 or we won't have a clean upgrade path from
> >> 12.10 to 13.04.
> > 
> > Obviously meant >= 2.5.11ubuntu13
> > (to keep a somewhat "clean" version number)
> 
> Niels, what are the chances that the experimental version of the package
> with additional lintian checks will make it into Debian unstable in the
> next few months (after resolving the problems with lintian4python)? Will
> we be looking at a 2.5.12 version of lintian?

There's no issue with lintian4python in experimental and lintian 2.5.11.  The 
problem is that when Bhavi uploaded lintian 2.5.11 to extras for quantal, the 
version of lintian4python in quantal is incompatible with 2.5.11.

Is there some way extras could be an equivalent of an unapproved queue so 
there would be a chance to catch this kind of thing before it is potentially 
delivered to every Ubuntu user that has not manually disabled extras?

Scott K