Idea: review + massive sync of Debian changes not involving new upstream versions?

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 17/03/10 at 23:36 +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 17 March 2010 18:43, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 5 lines summary:
> >  For universe packages that don't have anybody looking at them, I
> >  propose that, instead of letting them rot after Debian Import Freeze,
> >  we instead review the Debian changes that don't introduce new upstream
> >  versions, and continue to sync them (manually) to Ubuntu to get all
> >  the bug fixes that happen in Debian.
> 
> +1 is criteria for review is new build dependencies are satisfiable.
> Test success build?

Of course, if the packages adds new build dependencies, the reviewer
should try to make sure that the package can still build fine in Ubuntu.
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