[dapper-updates] germinate feature backport

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:58:03AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:44:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > To finish https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/seed-cleanup, I
> > need to get something code-equivalent to germinate 0.19 (just uploaded
> > to Debian) installed on drescher. The last time I did this, I simply got
> > Karl to install the package from edgy, but that's not going to work this
> > time because germinate 0.18 involved packaging changes for the new
> > Python policy that make it uninstallable on dapper. I think the simplest
> > approach would be to ensure that there's a version of germinate in
> > dapper-updates that can correctly parse current Ubuntu seeds; however
> > this does involve a feature backport. What do you think?
> > 
> > A suggested diff is attached, in which I backport pretty much everything
> > apart from the change of the default distribution to edgy and the Python
> > packaging changes.
> 
> That looks and sounds fine to me; I'd branch from edgy and reverse the
> packaging changes, so that you can conveniently backport further stuff as
> necessary (perhaps this is what you did anyway?).

I hadn't, but yeah, that seems like a good idea since bzr can't handle
cherry-picking at present. Done, and approved for dapper-updates; CCing
ubuntu-archive for the record.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]