[Bug 890621] Re: Please backport hg-git(0.3.1-1) from precise to oneiric

[Evan Broder]

Are you interested in backporting hg-git because it introduces new
features, or because it fixes bugs?

We prefer to use the backports process only for introducing features,
and not for fixing bugs. Because backports aren't installed by default,
it means that not everybody gets access to the bug fix.

For fixing bugs we use the SRU process (Stable Release Updates -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates). However, because of
stability risk, we don't do full version upgrades in SRUs, so we need to
have an isolated, minimal patch in order to fix the issues.

Can you pick out the patches required to fix the mercurial
incompatibilities, and also provide a description of how to reproduce
the crashes? Since it sounds like this could have broad impact for hg-
git users, I'm happy to drive the SRU process - regardless of whether or
not we continue with the backport - but I don't have any familiarity
with hg-git.

If there are actually new features from hg-git 0.3.1 that you would
still like to backport, please test that the current version of the
package builds, installs, and runs in oneiric. You can test this using
the backportpackage scripts in ubuntu-dev-tools to build in a PPA, by
running something like

    backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s precise -d
oneiric hg-git

Once you've verified that the package builds, installs, and runs, please
change the status of this bug to "Confirmed". In the mean time, I'm
going to mark it as "Incomplete" so that the backporters can keep track
of which bugs we've dealt with.

** Changed in: oneiric-backports
       Status: New => Incomplete

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  Please backport hg-git(0.3.1-1) from precise to oneiric

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