Automatically sync new packages until feature freeze

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Mon Jan 21 16:51:55 UTC 2008


On 21/01/08 at 13:53 +0100, Michael Bienia wrote:
> On 2008-01-20 23:19:58 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > I'm not 100% sure it's a good idea, but what about doing the same for
> > packages which aren't a new upstream release? If the Debian maintainer
> > uploaded a new debian-specific version, it's likely to be a bug-fixing
> > upload. It might be harder to automatize, but still...
> 
> The new revision might introduce a versioned build-dependency on an
> other package with a new upstream version and we would either have to
> complete the transition or undo the change.

Ok ; but, it isn't much harder to import new debian-specific versions
provided that they are still installable and buildable in Ubuntu.
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