Nobody knows how to do backports?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Aug 17 17:22:00 BST 2006


I didn't realize this issue was still at large.  I've added it to the agenda
for next week so that we can discuss it, and hope to resolve it soon.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:15:26AM -0400, John Dong wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> It's been more than a month since this last message, and keybuk told me in
> #ubuntu-devel that he still doesn't know how to handle Backports. It'd be
> great if we can get this cleared up and have Backports processing for
> Dapper.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> John Dong
> 
> On 7/3/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >backports are exactly like syncs, but with a trivially modified source
> >package.  mia.py in the katie suite contains the relevant bits.
> >
> >--
> >[backport] Please backport RSIBreak 0.7.1 from edgy to dapper
> >https://launchpad.net/bugs/50834
> >
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> >ubuntu-backports mailing list
> >ubuntu-backports at lists.ubuntu.com
> >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
> >

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 - mdz



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